edbrowse is like a Swiss Army Knife-it can do http, gopher, irc, email, and JS. The issue is it’s slower with JS enabled.

Tnanks God for Gopher://

holy shit the future is here gopher is finally for the modern mar

Hmm: gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-08/2025-08-18--permacomputing.txt

That’s fairly recent, but fully justified. I give up! :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (Haha, every time I read the word “Gophers”, I have to stop and remind myself that this is about Golang. 🤪)

I should have checked the CHANGELOG first. LOL.

Fellow Gophers might find this interesting, too: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/what-the-go-proxy-has-been-doing

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I noticed that:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2018/2018-06/2018-06-01.txt

Is the first non-justified, and it is when you started using Markdown. The last justified one was:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2018/2018-05/2018-05-27.txt

So, I might have found the mystery! :-D

Haha, fun! I browsed your gopher hole a little bit. I noticed some entries are fully justified (formatting), while others are not. I didn’t notice a pattern, though it makes sense not to use justification on entries with code. Yet, some prose entries are, and some are not. A mystery. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net The address is/was correct but probably got mangled by the Markdown renderer. Let’s try again in a code block:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, the acronym is funny. 😅

Wandering through the woods for 8km … gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03–roophloch.txt

This probably means that I can no longer host my own website. I don’t want to deploy something like Anubis, because that ruins the whole thing: I want it to be accessible from ancient browsers, like OS/2 or Windows 3.11.

I’ll keep an eye on it for a while. Maybe try to block some IPs.

Sooner or later, I’ll take the website down and shift everything to Gopher.

@dce@hashnix.club I switched over to following you on Gopher, because why not. 😅

So, in addition to HTTPS and Gemini, my twtxt should now also be available over Gopher (gopher://hashnix.club:70/0/~dce/twtxt.txt). Not sure who, if anyone, would need this; but since my tilde provides Gopher hosting, I’d may as well mirror my twtxt there as well.

Back to Win16 8-) New arrivals of fixed programs for Win31. A big collection of tested network software for Win31. gopher://shibboleths.org/1/win31

Hi all, this is a cool place! Thinking of spinning up a Gopher server myself soon :)

Sorry. gopher://1436.ninja/1/Port70News

Also gopher://1436.ninja/1/port70news

gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencolver/dir is a nice place.

Gopher reminds me of this Twilight Zone episode…. https://youtu.be/oLoNGRVeC7Y?si=apHHlqiGiCalLa3U

The globalists dreamed of destroying Gopher, and they almost succeeded. They succeeded in people’s minds and in their browsers. Your message is a logical outcome of these imposed misconceptions.

I wonder if Gopher might become a hit in some kind of civilization decline, due to its lightweight style appropriate for highly limited bandwidth

Anybody discover any cool new gopher holes lately?

@bender@twtxt.net curl -s gopher://… does that for you.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers… 🤭, but I digress. Verbatim text:

What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*

Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)

The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.

It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet. 

What’s Missing from “Retro”: gopher://midnight.pub/0/posts/2679

God bless the USA, Minnesota and Gopher.

Really, it won’t be long until I give the world the finger and move everything behind Gopher or Gemini. It’ll be a while until the bots find me there.

It looks like I missed a lot. My Pinephone is ideal for Gopher browsing because Firefox runs like a slug. Need more ARM Linux browsers.

The stigmatization of Gopher:// has unclear roots for me, as does the browser-level removal of its support. Why do globalists oppose gopher:// in every possible way, but not ftp?

The problem with gopher:// is that it is discriminated against, unlike ftp . People with globalist-washed brains somehow believe that they are complicit in progress, and gopher is some kind of deviation.

whaaaat. how did i get here? last time I used gopher/veronica/etc was in the mid 90s, in the Temple University computer labs. Probably on a DEC Ultrix Unix account

Welcome Gopher - Welcome HOME !

For Gopher:// exist a lot bunch solutions for Windows, stop raping Internet Explorer :)

I only have internet explorer 6. Therein gopher not blocked.

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, well, it’s a bit like twtxt. There is a Gopher community, but it’s small. I actually don’t like that HTTP is so easily accessible. I don’t like it that much when people post links to my site on HackerNews or something like that. Too much exposure.

Gopher is a small world. It’s slow and cozy.

And much like twtxt, the protocol is simple®, so it’s easier to tinker with it.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de why Gopher to babble, and not just HTTP? I mean, may as well just write plain text files on your machine, and leave them there, right?

Gopher and Mastodon are two completely different things. That’s where my confusion comes from.

@bender@twtxt.net Both Gopher and Mastodon are a way for me to “babble”. 😅 I basically shut down Gopher in favor of Mastodon/Fedi last year. But the Fediverse doesn’t really work for me. It’s too focused on people (I prefer topics) and I dislike the addictive nature of likes and boosts (I’m not disciplined enough to ignore them). Self-hosting some Fedi thing is also out of the question (the minimalistic daemons don’t really support following hashtags, which is a must-have for me).

I’ll probably keep reading Fedi stuff, I just won’t post that much, I think.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de how does Gopher relates to Mastodon? Are you getting off the Fedi completely?

Gopher server is back online and I’ll be phasing out Mastodon.

gopher://uninformativ.de

(No, I won’t do multi-protocol twtxt again. 😅)

hello_gopher!_just_like_the_other_anon_said_its_summer_and_everyone_is_out_enjoying_our_time

It feels like all the people have suddenly disappeared from Gopher.

When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:

“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a theoretical possibility that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”

And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly a reality that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.

GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)

I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.

(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)

I’m just tired.

if we got gopher holes, we need a protocol named ass, for assholes.

Evil gopher forces

Hello fellow gopherites! Show of hands: how many of you have your own gopher hole?

In english: lynx gopher://gopher.rbfh.de/1/Bible

On termux you can use telnet, lynx and netcat (command nc) to reach gopher servers.

@e8959 Gopher is thriving in the underground scene! rimshot I use it a lot for little tasks. The Archive.org interface on Gopher is sweet.

i’m using netcat installed on an android phone as a gopher client rn lol

Gopher is great

My favorit browser fir gopher is overbite for android from gopher.floodgap.com or DiggieDog from Google Apps.

Gopher browser (not a client) for all Windows starting with XP. Do not suffer http://shibboleths.org/roman/index.html

What’s your go-to Gopher client?

Some gopher browsers handle type i and spaces better than others.

Hi gopher folks. Glad to see you all checking in.

Want to revive Gopher? Just store your public files in gopher: // it’s simlpe

I feel like Gopher would look great on an e-ink screen. Too bad I’m terrified of borking my e-reader while trying to mod it.

@prologic@twtxt.net OH SHIT using this for a protocol like gopher is smart! might have to try that for gemini so i don’t have to keep a port open for that

@bender@twtxt.net Sure! 👍

{
    ...
   # Layer 4 Reverse Proxy
   layer4 {
      # Gopher
      0.0.0.0:70 {
         route {
            proxy <internal_ip>:70
         }
      }

      # IRC (TLS)
      0.0.0.0:6697 {
         route {
            proxy <internal_ip>:6697
         }
      }
   }
}

God bless Trump, Gopher and USA

Glad gopher is alive!

What’s gossip, gopher fishers? :)

Good enening gopher gang. Whats 1 good thing that happened today?

Is this thing on? I didn’t know gopher could accept text submissions…

it’s+funny+how+old+phones+don’t+support+gopher

If you have an old phone with a browser able for http, you can look at gopher sites by using the gopher portal http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?

Gopher is hero!

Gopher is heroine

Gopher holes are not on the web, they are in gopher space

are gopher holes not websites? they’re on the web after all

This is a Gopher hole, not a website.

I like gopher so far. Probably gonna increment the amount of gopher servers by 1 soon. Could also make custom client and server software for it, since it’s so simple.

RSS for Gopher? Never seeeeeeeee

Also, does anyone know a decent RSS reader that supports gopher:? I primarily use Newsboat, but it says the gopher: URI scheme is unsupported.

Bloody hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

$ jq -r --arg host "gopher.mills.io" '. | select(.request.host==$host) | "\(.request.client_ip) \(.request.uri) \(.request.headers["User-Agent"])"' mills.io.log-au | while IFS=$' ' read -r ip uri ua; do asn="$(geoip -a "$ip")"; echo "$asn $ip $uri $ua"; done | grep -E '^45102.*' | sort | head
45102 47.251.70.245 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/democracynow/2015/Oct/14/0 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.251.84.25 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/voaheadlines/2014/Mar/09/voanews.com-content-article-1867433.html ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F0692937396569A52972EB2 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F9657307A96569A52974634 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB7571C7896569A529E6603 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB75EF81296569A529E6617 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FC6564ADB96569A5A9E660C ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Broke on me for having alt-urls I think 🥲

twtxt---profile-layout: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, ("https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt" "gemini://box.aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt" "gopher://box.aelaraji.com/0/twtxt.txt")

(I keep thinking that going back go Gopher or Gemini might be a good idea at this point. They don’t care about that, probably. 🫣)

Gopher in Ineternet Explorer 3 works better than in this Dillo LoL

Maybe try somekind version of the Lynx for gopher?

Yes everything fine from it: gopher://shibboleths.org/5/win31/irc.zip Screen of IRC client for Win311: https://dropmefiles.com/DD4t9

I love finding content on Gopher because it’s devoid of paid favoritism, be it in ads or search results.

Gopher can’t be discover because it’s already 34 years old. From Windows 3.11 again…

@f1ee6 Hello, for my part, I’m discovering Gopher :-). Really cool to give a little life to old computers. For the moment, I access Gopher from an old Mac G3/OS9, lynx on linux on an I3 laptop and for fun, Gopher from my old Palm PDA with Overbite. Lots of good things to all, friendship from France ;-)

Gopher Farm: Like Animal Farm, but more succinct.

Who invent gopher, commi?!

Once again, the insane commi are writing to in American gopher, through an American browser, to American server. lol

EdgeGuard Update:

I am now in a position where I’m no longer having any ports open on my firewall at the Mills DC. 🥳 All services (Gopher, SMTP, IRC, SSH, HTTP) are being proxied through my edge network 💪

At least Minnesota won their bowl game. Go Gophers!

Browsing X and fell down a gopher hole. Love it. ✌️ -Steve Galbincea

Happy 2025! My first gopher experience.

This is my first time on gopher. Very cool!

HAPPY NEW YEAR – learning about gopher

thanks man!!! love seeing ppl use gopher -@levelsio

owow. Gopher is still here!

I think best browser for Gopher is Blue skies

Happy New Year colleagues on behalf of the team gopher://shibboleths.org ! :)

Magical.fish looks good in Pocket Gopher.

I mostly use Pocket Gopher on Android, and sometimes Doggy Dog.

Man, I love Gopher. I also love that I can use Termux to get Lynx and Gopher on the go. As much as I like Floodgap, Overbite on Android needs more features (like downloads).