... Ok, I was curious to see if Gopher was still around
Although the World Wide Web won, Gopherspace is well alive! There are some 3.5 million selectors (the equivalent of "web pages") in some 160 Gopher servers.
As others said, there are plugins which HTML-ify the Gopher protocol and allows to view Gopherspace in Firefox. There's also a Gopher Protocol Client available here:
https://sites.google.com/site/matjaz85/gopherclient
But personally, I prefer the OverbiteFF plugin for Firefox.
Here's a list of all known Gopher sites to explore
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world/
And thanks to Rob, all Synchonet BBSes are also Gopher Servers by default, so credit to Digital Man for making the tools to keep the flame alive. In a recent version Synchronet was updated to allow also downloading from Gopher Protocol!
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