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    Why Gopher Still Matters in 2026●Why Gopher in 2026?YhnBusinessEconomy12250 min ago

    A discussion is underway about why the Gopher protocol — the pre-web hypertext system from the early 1990s — is still worth using in 2026. Writers point to its simplicity, small file sizes, and freedom from advertising and tracking as reasons some users maintain phlogs and Gopher holes despite the modern web's dominance.

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    Gopher: When the Internet Was Made of Menus●GOPHER – ALS DAS INTERNET AUS MENÜS BESTAND https:// gadgetchecks.de/gopher-als-das -internet-aus-menues-bestand/ # netzMmastodonTechnologyInternet28 d ago

    A German tech site takes a look back at Gopher, the pre-web protocol that organized online content into simple hierarchical menus before the World Wide Web took over in the early 1990s. The retrospective explains how Gopher worked, why it lost out to HTTP and HTML, and what it meant for internet history and computing nostalgia.