Gopher Client 15+

Name: Gopher Client
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Charles Childers

Charles Childers

Designed for iPad

- 5.0 • 2 Ratings

- Free

Description

"gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches or delivers documents for office staff. 4. (computer tech.) software following a simple protocol for burrowing through a TCP/IP internet."

- From RFC 1436 describing Gopher

Way back in the early 1990's, Gopher was a major part of the internet. Over the years it has waned, but there are still quite a few Gopher servers running.

This is is a modern Gopher browser for iOS. Built from the ground up, it lets you access the wealth of data available via Gopher from your favorite devices.

What this offers:

- Clean, browser style user interface
- Access to Gopher servers
- Supports text files, images, directories
- Opens WWW links in Safari
- Supports Veronica-2, Contrition, and other search systems for searching the Gopherspace
- Bookmarks
- Adjustable text size & optional "reflow" of text documents for improved readability

Limitations:

- This does not support binary files other than images
- This does not support the non-standard Gopher+ extensions, or CSO selectors

22 Aug 2018

Version 2018.8

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.

5.0 out of 5

2 Ratings

Everyone should buy this app

I think it’s terrific that someone has taken the initiative to create an app to allow us to use Gopher on iOS. It is very user friendly, never crashes or misbehaves and its a lot of fun exploring the retro net. Anyone interested in retro computing needs this app.