Gopher / About

Standards

• RFC 1436 -- The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol);

• RFC 4266 -- The gopher URI Scheme;

• Gopher+ (proposal);

• Gopher capabilities (proposal);

Articles

• The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol (2016);

• Why is Gopher Still Relevant? (2010-ish?);

• Who Killed Gopher? -- An Extensible Murder Mystery (1998);

• Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share (1999);

• the gopher:// manifesto (2000);

• Down the Gopher Hole (2007);

• Gopher: Underground Technology (2004);

• The WELL Gopher (2006);

• The Web may have won, but Gopher tunnels on (2009);

• Gopher2000 -- A Modern Gopher Server (2013);

GopherCon

• GopherCon 1992:

  • GopherCon '92: Trip report (Prentiss Riddle);

• GopherCon 1993:

  • GopherCon '93: Internet Gopher Workshop and Internet Gopher Conference (Prentiss Riddle);

• GopherCon 1994:

  • Quality of Information;

  • A Preliminary Design for a 3-D Spatial User Interface for Internet Gopher;

  • Running WWW on top of Gopher;

  • A Gopher Interface to Relational Databases;

• GopherCon 1995:

  • GopherCon 94: A Gathering of Gophernauts (Mark Thacker);

Historical

• Tricks of the Internet Gurus -- Gopher;

• Gopher design tips;

• Link file basics;

Videos

• Interview with the developers of Gopher (video);

Miscellaneous

• Web2Gopher: Your Web portal for all thing Gopher;

• WikkaGopher;

• Gopher on Wikipedia;

• Various Gopher related documents;

Archives

• 2007 Gopherspace Mirror @archive.org;

• QUUX Gopher Mirror @archive.org;

• Gopher Protocol @www.jumpjet.info;

• GopherCon @gopherspace.de;

• The Gopher Archive;

• ftp.sunet.se/pub/gopher;

• cpan.org/scripts/infoserv/gopher;