Gopher
From Cship
Gopher is an old Internet technology which was invented to provide a better access than anonymous FTP to the files of the young Internet. It works a little bit like the www everybody knows today. It works on port 70. A gopher URL looks like this: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/new (which is a list of new Gopher servers since 1999).
It doesn't look as good as normal web pages, so the www took over this technique quite fast. There are only about 100 Gopher servers left today (and only 25 new ones in the last 10 years). From the modern web browsers only Firefox is able to view Gopher websites. The best support has the text web browser Lynx. The squid proxy works by default as a Gopher to http gateway.
As we know, there is no censorship on the Gopher protocol, so there is no need to find bypass methods for it. In contrast, it is a great method to publish information.
With Veronica there also exists a search system. Curently there is only one running veronica-2 server left (at floodgap.com)
