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		wolfgangh on Aug 12, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol I miss Gopher. I remember when the Gopher sites started to display: "This service has been discontinued. Please use WWW instead". I was completely disappointed.

x2398dh1 on Aug 12, 2016 [–]

Actually there are still a number of Gopher servers in operation, and you can use Firefox to visit them.

vmorgulis on Aug 12, 2016 | [–]

"All the gopher servers (that we know of)"

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodga...

SDF still provides a gopherspace inside its free shell:

http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher

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