[mdcox]

Do you mind me asking why? I was going to implement the protocol as an intro rust project, but Wikipedia and others called it obsolete so I ended up falling back onto the familiar IRC bot. My interest is still piqued however...

[cbd1984]

Historical interest, mainly. Gopher is still used, but not by any large number of people; however, it occupies an interesting place in the history of the Internet as the main implementation of the idea of hypertext before the Web caught on.