Gopher is an Internet environment and protocol similar to the Web
and HTTP. Gopher predates the Web; one could say that Gopher kind
of "gave birth" to it. Most Web browsers still support browsing
Gopherspace to a certain extent (although IE is NOT reccommended).

Gopher pages kind of look like this page (that is, when you look
at them using Gnopher with the default theme. To see other themes
check out our Website theme selector.)

Further on from here:

What is Gnopher?
Select a Website Theme

Web pages containing more detailed info on Gopher:

The Heatdeath organisation

Links to Gopherspace (if you can get there already):

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