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       In 1991, the Gopher protocol was born -- a method of searching for and
       distributing information on the Internet. Gopher was intended to be
       easy to implement and use, and for a little while, it was very
       popular.
       
       Of course, HTTP and the World Wide Web launched right around that
       time, and it wasn't long before the Web was proven to be a better
       platform. Gopher has survived to this day, but the WWW reigns supreme.
       
       Despite its lack of popularity, Gopher is still an awesome protocol -
       it's extremely hackable and fun to work on. People like to put random
       stuff on their gopher servers -- their blog, articles they write, etc.
       I decided that I wanted to write an interface to the single greatest
       source of information on the Internet -- Wikipedia.
       
       So, I built Gopherpedia. It runs on Gopher2000
       (https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000), a Ruby library I wrote for
       developing Gopher services. The web proxy to Gopherpedia is GoPHPer
       (https://github.com/muffinista/gophper-proxy), which I also wrote.
       
 (TXT) more about the Gopher protocol
 (HTM) gopher2000 - a ruby gopher server
 (HTM) gophper-proxy - a modern PHP gopher proxy
       
 (DIR) back to gopherpedia