Many of you may not remember, but pre-internet era featured the gopher, a protocol later replaced by HTTP. To my surprise, there are still resources available on Gopher and it even has a functional search feature. Since the protocol is old, almost no one supports it anymore. You need to install special software or use a proxy. Using a proxy is more convenient to drop a link here. Here’s the search engine https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/v2 (click on Search Veronica-2)
Search engine:
An example of text from the past: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.meulie.net:70/0/textfiles/humor/JOKES/best1001.asc
There are also Russian-language resources, but a native client may be required due to encoding. Here they posted videos with music:
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.rp.spb.su:70/1/stauropygial/video/Mudenoise
https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopher.floodgap.com%3A70%2F1%2Fv2
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 