The EFF just published an article on the rise and fall of Gopher on
their Deeplinks blog.

"Gopher: When Adversarial Interoperability Burrowed Under the
Gatekeepers' Fortresses"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/02/gopher-when-adversarial-interoperability-burrowed-under-gatekeepers-fortresses

I thought it might be of interest to people here.

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