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h1. Gopher Gopher is a distributed, menu driven, text-based system for information retrieval on the Internet. It's a predecessor in many ways to the [much later] HTTP based Web as we know it today. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) h2. Gopher clients h3. For modern OS / environment TBD * "OverbiteWX Firefox Extension":http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ * "Burrow Gopherspace Explorer for Chrome":https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/burrow-gopherspace-explor/plhaaggiajlcjclagmjnjmaonhkdhhji * https://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo (C language / console) * https://github.com/prologic/gopherclient (Go language using Webview) h3. Historical clients * "original University of Minnesota gopher+":https://github.com/jgoerzen/gopher (builds on modern Linux) h2. Public gopher on the Internet * Wikipedia gopher interface: gopher://gopherpedia.com/1 * List of gopher servers: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world TBD h2. Gopher in Osmocom Retro-Networking We don't have concrete plans as to offering gopher services. It would be nice if somebody would develop a converter script that renders gopher versions of the CCC Event schedule (Fahrplan), see #4242
