I spent yesterday evening writing a small Gopher server library, thinking 'how hard could it be'? Turns out, not hard at all. And the client is of course even simpler. It's mind-boggling how much more complicated the modern web and web browsers have become, with--occasionally, at least--reduced usability too, to add insult to injury. And they are overflowing with voices promoting and selling and arguing and lying and shouting. So, here I am, a refugee from all that sound and fury, dismantling the last few decades of corporate and computing progress one tiny step at a time, having found, perhaps, at long last, a quiet corner far, I hope, from the madding crowd.