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	Articles and other documents about or around Gopher. Sadly, most of
	them are only available in that inferior protocol that is HTTP.
	Last updated: 18th of February, 2025.
	If you know of any other article that you think should be included
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	Gopher: The Internet’s Forgotten Pathways
	AA.VV., entry in Network Encyclopedia.
	Last edited on the 6th of March, 2024.
	The Gopher Revival Is Upon Us
	By Jenny List, for Hackaday.
	29th of December, 2023.
	The Return of Gopher: Pre-web hypertext service is still around
	By Liam Proven, for The Vulture.
	23rd of May, 2022.
	The Web Before the Web: A Look Back at Gopher
	By Benj Edwards, for How-To Geek.
	19 of July, 2020.
	Gopherspace in the Year 2020
	By Cheapskate.
	25th of June 2020.
	Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the Gatekeepers' Fortresses
	By Cory Doctorow, for EFF.
	21st of February, 2020.
	Exploring the Gopher protocol
	By Matt Kevan.
	24th of June, 2019.
	The technical differences between HTTP and gopher
	By Sean Conner.
	12th of January, 2019.
	MN Computing History - Gopher Protocol
	By Jonathan Clemens, PhD, for The Minnesota Computing History
	Project.
	July 2018 (?).
	Tim Gihring explains the rise and fall of the Gopher protocol
	By Tim Gihring, for the MinnPost 10 at 10.
	27th of November, 2017.
	Long Live Gopher: The Techies Keeping the Text-Driven Internet Alive
	By Ernie Smith, Motherboard reprise.
	1st of August, 2017 (originally for Tedium, 22 of June, 2017).
	Burrowing A Gopher Hole
	By Ernie Smith, original Tedium version.
	22 of June, 2017.
	The web looks like shit
	By Hanson O'Haver, for The Outline.
	5th of April, 2017.
	Tim Berners-Lee: I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it
	By Tim Berners-Lee, for The Guardian.
	12th of March, 2017.
	The Gopher Project: Early Internet and U of M Libraries
	By Kay Kirscht, for Minitex News, University Libraries, University
	of Minnesota.
	8th of March, 2017.
	How the Web Became Unreadable
	By Kevin Marks, on Backchannel (now on Wired).
	19th of October, 2016.
	[Discussion] "How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet" Re: The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
	An interesting discussion on the Internet History Mailing List
	triggered by Scott Carlson's and Tim Girhing's articles.
	AA.VV. on the internet-history mailing list.
	7th-8th of September, 2016.
	[Paywall] How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet
	Article behind a paywall, alas.
	By Scott Carlson, for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
	5th of September, 2016.
	When Gopher Ruled the Internet
	Another reaction to Tim Gihring's seminal article.
	By David Cassel, for The New Stack.
	21th of August, 2016.
	[Discussion] The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol
	An interesting discussion on the Internet History Mailing List
	triggered by Tim Girhing's article.
	AA.VV. on the internet-history mailing list.
	15th-21st of August, 2016.
	Remembering Gopher, the Browsable Internet Before the Rise of the Web
	Fortune's Sunday Read about Tim Gihring's article.
	By David Z. Morris, for Fortune.
	14th of August, 2016.
	The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol
	By Tim Gihring, for the MinnPost.
	11th of August, 2016.
	[Archive.org] Remember the Gopher protocol?
	By Kevin Veroneau.
	10th of December, 2014 (as archived on the 20th of October, 2021).
	What Kind of Weirdo Uses Gopher?
	By Peter Beard.
	11th of October, 2014.
	Gopherpedia - The Free Encyclopedia via gopher
	Gophper - A Modern Gopher Proxy for the Modern Age
	Gopher2000 - A Modern Gopher Server
	Some fond memories of Gopher have inspired the author to write a
	modern, fully-functional Gopher server in Ruby, a PHP Gopher proxy
	and a mirror of Wikipedia in Gopherspace - probably the largest
	gopher site in existence right now (about 4.2 million pages,
	totaling somewhere over 10GB of data).
	By Colin Mitchell.
	12th, 13th and 14th of June, 2013.
	[Video] The Hidden Internet - Gopher Protocol
	Video by GeekBlogTV.
	26th of November, 2012 (down as of the 18th of February, 2025).
	Gopher - A la recherche du protocole perdu
	Par Denis Bernard, pour GNU/Linux Magazine no.136.
	Mars 2011.
	The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
	By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, for Wired.
	17th of August, 2010.
	Download A Piece of Internet History
	Some More Gopher Data
	How a significant chunk of Gopher history was saved in 2006/2007
	by the author who wrote Gopherbot, a spidering archiver for
	Gopherspace. And where to get it (hint: The Internet Archive has
	your back).
	By John Goerzen.
	28th & 29th of April, 2010.
	The Web may have won, but Gopher tunnels on
	By Nate Anderson, for Ars Technica.
	11th of April, 2009.
	[Archive.org] How Moore's Law saved us from the Gopher web
	By Colin Barras, for NewScientist.
	12th of March, 2009 (as archived on the 18th of July, 2017).
	Why is Gopher Still Relevant?
	By Cameron Kaiser, from the Overbite Project.
	ca. 2008?
	Down the Gopher Hole
	By Cameron Kaiser, for TidBITS.
	19th of March, 2007.
	[Archive.org] HOWTO: Make a weblog a gopherlog
	By George Hotelling.
	3rd of April, 2005 (as archived on the 14th of March, 2017).
	[Archive.org] Gopher: Underground Technology
	By Lore Sjberg, for Wired.
	12th of April, 2004 (as archived on the 26th of December, 2014).
	[PDF] Before the Web There Was Gopher
	By Philip L. Frana, Charles Babbage Institute, University of
	Minnesota, for the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
	(2004 vol. 26, issue no. 01, pp. 20-41, January-March 2004)
	January 2004.
	The U's Gopher system was the early way around the Net
	The creators of Gopherspace at the University of Minnesota.
	By Sherri Cruz, for the Star Tribune.
	5th of November, 2001.
	[Video] An interview with Mark McCahill, Thomas Misa & Farhad Anklesaria
	[Video] McCahill and Anklesaria Explain Gopher part 1
	[Video] McCahill and Anklesaria Explain Gopher part 2
	Video of Mark McCahill, Thomas Misa & Farhad Anklesaria interviewed
	on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network.
	Date unknown.
	Gopher protocol considered inferior
	The perspective of a partially-sighted computer scientist about
	Gopher.
	By Silas S. Brown, Computer Laboratory, Faculty of Computer Science
	and Technology, University of Cambridge.
	Date unknown.
	Where Have all the Gophers Gone?
	Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share.
	By Christopher (Cal) Lee, School of Information, University of
	Michigan.
	23rd of April, 1999; last revision: 25 april 2008.
	Who Killed Gopher? - An Extensible Murder Mystery
	By Dr. Rohit Khare, republished by the IEEE Compuer Society.
	January-February 1999.
	[Archive.org] Who Killed Gopher? - An Extensible Murder Mystery
	By Dr. Rohit Khare, School of Information and Computer Science,
	University of California, Irvine.
	23rd of December, 1998 (as archived on the 3rd of April, 2017).
	[Archive] Down the Gopher hole
	By James Romenesko, for the Pioneer Press.
	4th of March, 1996 (retrieved from the newspaper archives on the
	4th of April, 2007).
	[Document] Gopher addressing
	CERN Hypertext Project Documentation about Gopher.
	By Tim Berners-Lee.
	Date unknown.
	[Document] Gopher+
	Upward compatible enhancements to the Internet Gopher protocol.
	By Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Mark P. McCahill,
	Daniel Torrey, David Johnson & Bob Alberti, Microcomputer and
	Workstation Networks Center, Computer and Information Systems,
	University of Minnesota.
	30th of July, 1993.
	[Document / RFC] RFC 1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol
	By F. Anklesaria, M. McCahill, P. Lindner, D. Johnson, D. Torrey,
	& B. Alberti, University of Minnesota.
	March 1993.
	[Usenet Announcement] Internet Gopher: a distributed campus-wide information system
	An announcement of Gopher on Usenet.
	By the Gopher Development Team, University of Minnesota.
	7th of October, 1991.
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