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by mooooooooooooo 1141 days ago
How would one go about exploring the gopher-sphere?
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ipcress_file 1140 days ago
You can access gopher using a regular browser through Floodgap's proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

A good gopher hole to visit to find recently-updated material is here: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/

Using a terminal, the old lynx browser is probably the most widely available and user-friendly client.

If you want a GUI, Skyjake's Lagrange browser is beautiful and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

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defrost 1141 days ago
cURL and netcat are gopher clients, of course ... but it's likely easier to start with a chrome extension, eg:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/burrow-gopherspace...

(via OverBite: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ )

and reading up a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

then dip a toe into the community forums.

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