[dsleno]

What the article describes is gopherspace, which believe it or not still exists. And believe it or not, is experiencing a resurgence. It's too bad major browsers gave up on gopher:// because as we are seeing now in this and other laments for the old www, we lost something that we didnt have to lose. Gopherspace--check it out.

[rossdavidh]

best browser for gopherspace, if I were curious? best search engine?

[ChrisSD]

If you're just curious, there's a gopher->http gateway:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

And a search engine:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.floodgap.com+7...