I copied this over from my blog., This may be of interest to a wider audience here.
There are still some servers out there, some are new, and offer services such as HackerNews, Project Gutenberg and others. Thanks to Anthk @anthk@paquita.masto.host who has made a list of some of these Gopher servers
Does the web allow you to do this at 2.7 KBPS?
- Gutenberg gopher://gopher.icu/7/gutenberg
- Internet Archive gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
- Huge portal gopher://magical.fish
- News, blog and more gopher://1436.ninja
- Reddit gopher://gopherddit.com
- HN gopher://hngopher.com
- Google Maps (text) gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dir
- Podcasts: gopher://gopher.icu/1/pod
- Dictionary: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/dict Blogs:
- gopher://sdf.org
- Weather (finger):
- gopher://graph.no:79/0/London
There are still clients software out there, and yeah you can all this with good old plain text.
apt search gopher