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oldfolio Over the last year or two I have noticed a resurgence of interest in gopher, with a number of new gopher communities springing up that provide gopher hosting at no cost to anyone who wishes to use the services. The flip side of this increased interest in gopher is the decreased support for gopher in contemporary web browsers. Firefox removed native gopher support with version 4, but you could always add it back by installing the OverbiteFF add-on. That changed when Firefox released version 57, which is no longer compatible with the add-on. Current work-arounds include the OverbiteWX add-on, which integrates access to the Floodgap gopher proxy into recent versions of Firefox. Another option is to use the Seamonkey browser since -- at least for the time being -- it is still compatible with the OverbiteFF add-on. Depending on which OS you are using, you may be able to use an old version of Seamonkey that had *native* support for gopher. I have Seamonkey 1.1.19 installed on a Windows 7 machine. I use that Seamonkey installation exclusively as a gopher client. You can get old versions of Seamonkey here: HTML Old Seamonkey Releases |------------------------------------------------------------| DIR Phlog DIR The Republic Circumlunar Root TEXT CLI Notes TEXT DNS Notes TEXT Emacs Notes TEXT Email Notes TEXT Server Notes |------------------------------------------------------------| If you live in the United States, you can get text-only weather forecasts at Weather Maniac. HTML Weather Maniac