Welcome  to my  gopher log!   Why gopher?   I admit  to pretty  much
ignoring gopher  during the 90s when  it was in mainstream  use, but
lately  I've come  to see  the  appeal as  a stark  contrast to  the
world-wide   dumpster   fire,   with  its   associated   bloat   and
commercialism.

I enjoy writing, and  gopher seems to me to as close  as you can get
in  digital form  to pen  and paper,  in that  there is  very little
distance between the  act of producing the content and  having it be
in a  form that is  immediately visible to  others.  Not only  is it
easy to make content available online, the protocol is simple and as
a consequence servers are easy to setup, lightweight and fast.

I suppose the only "bad" thing about  it is the lack of awareness of
gopher  as an  alternative, but  there is  clearly a  growing gopher
presence, rooted in  the pubnix communities and  supported by gopher
search engines  like those hosted  by floodgap and  forthworks.  The
gopher community feels  small and close-knit, a  welcome change from
the way the web has developed over the decades.