like to consider the hundreds of

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     $$ /  \__|$$ /  $$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |  $$ |

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     $$ |\_$$ |$$ |  $$ |$$  ____/ $$  __$$ |$$  __|   $$  __$$<

     $$ |  $$ |$$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |  $$ |$$ |      $$ |  $$ |

     \$$$$$$  | $$$$$$  |$$ |      $$ |  $$ |$$$$$$$$\ $$ |  $$ |

      \______/  \______/ \__|      \__|  \__|\________|\__|  \__|

[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected Gopher servers to

be one large distributed entity; thus, we speak of "the Gopher", with

its many small parts, spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is

always growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't locate

it; it's always there, but you can't see it. ... The Gopher is the

largest and most practical example of applied pantheism in the history

of mankind.

                 -- Hahn; Stout. The Internet Complete Reference (1994)

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|                               Software                              |

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Gopher clients

Applications for various operating systems.

Gopher proxy with Opera

Configuring Opera 12 to use a Gopher proxy.

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|                                Videos                               |

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;mpm_gopher.mp4 (70 MiB)	/gopher/videos/mpm_gopher.mp4	cyber.dabamos.de	70

A rare interview with some of the founders of Gopher: Mark McCahill

and Farhad Anklesaria, also includes some early screenshots.

;Gopher_World_Tour_T-Shirt_on MTV.mpg (772 KiB)	/gopher/Gopher_World_Tour_T-Shirt_on_MTV.mpg	cyber.dabamos.de	70

A 7 second video of Adam Curry fulfilling the terms of his commercial

use of Internet Gopher server software license from the University of

Minnesota.

;Internet_Show_12_-_Gopher.mp4 (21.8 MiB)	/gopher/videos/Internet_Show_12_-_Gopher.mp4	cyber.dabamos.de	70

"Since Gopher is a very popular service, gopherspace is a huge and

expanding part of the Internet."

;gopher.avi (241 KiB)	/gopher/videos/gopher.avi	cyber.dabamos.de	70

Surfing the Gopherspace with WS Gopher 1.2 on Windows.

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|                                Images                               |

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|                               Articles                              |

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The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from:

Offbeat Internet

--- Vogue Growth Era --------------------------------------------------

Usenet_Gopher_Announcement.txt

On_the_Trail_of_the_Internet_Gopher.txt

Gopher_spiel.txt

The_Internet_Gopher.txt

Lets_Gopher_it.txt

IUBio_Gopher_hole.txt

CCSO_through_Gopher.txt

Summer_Go-pher-it_Workshops.txt

Tailoring_Gopher_Services_for_Individual_Users.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Tailoring_Gopher_Services_for_Individual_Users.pdf

APS_Server_Anniversary.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/APS_Server_Anniversary.pdf

A_Rolling_Gopher_Gathers_No_Moss.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/A_Rolling_Gopher_Gathers_No_Moss.pdf

Gopher_from_MOO.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Gopher_from_MOO.pdf

Services_Available_on_The_Internet.rtf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Services_Available_on_The_Internet.rtf

Using_Gopher_on_the_Internet.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Using_Gopher_on_the_Internet.pdf

A_Preliminary_Design_for_a_3-D_Spatial_User_Interface_for_Internet_Gopher.txt

Announcing_GopherVR.txt

GopherVR_now_available.txt

Announcing_TurboGopher.txt

Evolution_of_Internet_Gopher.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Evolution_of_Internet_Gopher.pdf

Internet_Diving.txt

Gopher_Jewels_Design_Change.txt

WWW_vs_Gopher.txt

--- Mass Defection Era ------------------------------------------------

Gopher_and_Veronica.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Gopher_and_Veronica.pdf

Who_Killed_Gopher.txt

Gopher_Jewels_Closing.txt

SEC_Gopher_discontinued.txt

Mother_Gopher_Obituary.txt

TCP-IP_Guide.txt

Where_Have_all_the_Gophers_Gone.txt

Interview_with_Paul_Lindner.txt

Bob_Alberti.txt

About_Gopher.txt

Gopher_Manifesto.txt

Gopher_Underground.txt

Gopher_still_going.txt

Down_the_Gopher_Hole.rtf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Down_the_Gopher_Hole.rtf

The_death_of_WELLgopher.txt

JumpJet_Gopher_terminated.txt

How_Gopher_nearly_trumped_the_web.txt

Bandwidth_and_Gopher.txt

--- Stagnancy Era -------------------------------------------------

Gopher_tunnels_on.pdf cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/articles/Gopher_tunnels_on.pdf

OmniWeb_now_includes_Gopher_support.txt

Fun_Sites_from_the_Early_Internet.txt

Long_Live_Gopher.txt

Why_is_Gopher_Still_Relevant.txt

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|                              GopherCon                              |

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Documents of various Gopher Conventions from the 1990s.

--- GopherCon '92 -----------------------------------------------------

GopherCon_'92_Trip_Report.txt

--- GopherCon '93 -----------------------------------------------------

GopherCon_'93_Trip_Report.txt

GopherCon_Mar93_Minutes.txt

--- GopherCon '94 -----------------------------------------------------

Directions_to_Radisson.txt

GopherCon94_Registration_Info.txt

Attendee_List_through_Friday_April_15.txt

Agenda_at_a_Glance_FINAL.txt

Agenda_in_detail_FINAL.txt

Presentations:

GEN1 = 1994_State_of_the_Gopher.txt

EQ1 = Information_Quality.txt

COL1 = K-12_Learning_Resource.txt

APP7 = WSGopher_a_Windows_Gopher+_client.txt

APP12 = Running_WWW_on_top_of_Gopher.txt

APP14 = Growing_the_MIT_Libraries_Gopher.zip cyber.dabamos.de:70/gopher/gophercon/gc94/presentations/APP14=Growing_the_MIT_Libraries_Gopher.zip

Papers:

Go4zgate.txt

GopherSQL.txt

SQLEvents.txt

SafeGopher.txt

3Dgopherspace.txt

--- GopherCon '95 -----------------------------------------------------

Directions_to_Radisson.txt

GopherCon95_Announcement.txt

Agenda.txt

Papers:

Go4zgate.txt

ScreenScrape.txt

WebbedGopher.txt

Hyper-G.txt

Cluster.txt

3DUnixServer.txt

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|                                 RFCs                                |

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Standards referencing Gopher:

rfc1436.txt - The Internet Gopher Protocol

rfc1580.txt - Guide to Network Resource Tools

rfc1594.txt - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions

rfc1614.txt - Network Access to Multimedia Information

rfc1689.txt - Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups

rfc1727.txt - A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service

rfc1738.txt - Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

rfc1808.txt - Relative Uniform Resource Locators

rfc2219.txt - Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services

rfc2396.txt - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

rfc4266.txt - The Gopher URI Scheme

Enhancement proposals:

Gopher+

+MENU block suggestion

Changes to RFC1738 and RFC1808

Proposed Item-type Changes

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|                       Licencing Fiasco of 1993                      |

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The following Gopher documents are mostly taken from:

Offbeat Internet

Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_ANCIENT.txt

This policy hung a dark cloud over GopherCon '93.

Gopher-Software-Licencing-Policy_NEW.txt

The lifting of prohibition had little impact, occuring seven years

too late.

Peers Condemning the Ancient Gopher Licence

UMN Justifying their Ancient Gopher Licence

Retrospection on the disasterous impact of licencing Gopher

.