When was the Last Time You Used Gopher?

ahuber asks: "As part of a class for LIS 391 @ the University of Illinois, I'm doing a history of the gopher protocol. My intent in this is to track the rise and fall of old technologies in hope that it tells us something about technologies we use today. So, my question to you is: When was the last time you used a gopher server? What did you use it for? And finally, do you miss the gopher now that its virtually gone? While some of you may think this is a silly topic, old and useful technologies are going the way of Gopher every day. One example from my campus is the retiring of the newsgroup server and telnet. Do you have any similar experiences that made you think twice about giving up an older technology?"

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Gopher, eh?

[Captain Goatse]

Is that an IM protocol/system/whatever?

IM systems die fast if people stop using them, your friends aren't online and you won't be able to make any new ones, just take this example: I haven't got an message over ICQ for about 3 years, and now I got a message saying: "slm nasylsyn", I've got no idea what it is, or who it's from :/ Scary, eh?

Somehow it seems as if MSN is the 'in' IM protocol right now, everyone's using it, and hotmail of course. I don't see why, but I'm using it as well, so I guess you'll have to blame me too. As long as it's 'open' I'll continue using it, I'm using Trillian(probably handles Gopher, otherwise just write a plugin) or Gaim to access it, never a Microsoft product >:)