Gopher (UMN Terminal Client) (software review)

★★★★☆ Out of all the Linux distributions I use regularly, only Debian still has a dedicated Gopher client in its standard software repository. apt install gopher It took some, well, digging (sorry) to determine that the text-mode gopher client included in Debian’s apt repository is the University of Minnesota’s classic client, updated occasionally for compatibility (and apparently at some point to support gopher+). It’s really user-friendly and thorough. It’s a TUI app, like Lynx (which is still included in most Linux distros, and which also still supports Gopher) or Nano, so you use arrow keys and page up/down to navigate around in your terminal window, and other keys to search in the current page, download a file, or open another site, or add/remove bookmarks, etc. Help is literally one ? keypress away. Modern menus with work just fine. Each menu item is labeled with its line number, and lines that point to something other than text files are also labeled: / for menus, <Picture> for…