Gopher still going
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Gopher, developed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, is a text-only, 
hierarchical document search and retrieval protocol that was supplanted by the 
more flexible WWW in the mid-1990s. Some servers running this old protocol are 
still alive, however. The WELL, an online discussion board and community that 
started back in 1985, is still running a Gopher server. If you've got a recent 
version of Firefox, you can check it out in its original Gopher-y state at 
gopher://gopher.well.com/ or with any web browser at 
http://gopher.well.com:70/.

It seems to have been frozen in early 1996 or so and houses several historical 
documents from the early 1990s. Many of the links are dead and some documents 
cannot be found, but poking around for 20 minutes or so, I found:

    1994 edition of Hobbes' Internet Timeline. The current version is here.

    Interviews from MONDO 2000, including William Vollman, Brenda Laurel, and 
    a conversation between David Byrne and Timothy Leary.

    Scripts from a 1993 program on NBC called Almost 2001, "a 5-part series on 
    Telecommunications and Technology".

    Highways of the Mind, an essay by Roger Karraker from 1991 on the future 
    of technology and globally networked humanity.

    A 1972 article by then-journalist Al Gore about the leader of a communal 
    settlement in Tennessee.

    A profile and history of The WELL from September 1993.

    Some miscellaneous writings, including some stuff by Bruce Sterling.

One of the articles by Sterling, his remarks from a privacy conference in 
1994, touches on a topic that's still hotly debated today:

    I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of 
    privacy threat raised by this panel. And I don't. One reason is that these 
    scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic 
    bureaucracies (of whatever character, political or economic) that are 
    capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an 
    unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't 
    work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when 
    they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas 
    especially when they are on fire.

I don't follow Sterling's writing that closely, but I wonder if he's changed 
his mind on this issue?

Matisse Enzer helped set up The WELL's Gopher server and tells how it came to 
be on his blog. And here are a few other Gopher servers that are still running:

gopher://aerv.nl/1
gopher://hal3000.cx/1
gopher://quux.org/1
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/11/users
http://gopherproject.org/Software/Gopher