Blake Patterson<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@william_shotts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>william_shotts</span></a></span> Shortly after I tried out Mosaic (the first publicly available web browser) for the first time, I was in the university computer Sun lab and a guy was showing his girlfriend the web. </p><p>She asked "what is this?" and he said "it's like Gopher, but for lazy people."</p><p>That always stuck with me. </p><p>The Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, of which I am one of several hosts, offers its contents via Gopher (...and the web, too).</p><p><a href="gopher://rcrpodcast.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible"></span><span class="">gopher://rcrpodcast.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/preweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preweb</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/earlyweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>earlyweb</span></a></p>