This is the second time I have seen the request for a Gopher Server in these recent weeks. In remembering those ancient days, I used gopher from NYC and CCNY's tenet sites and then go to IRC and FTP all over the place! That was fun.
But in those days things were honest and reliable. And since you had to log in from somewhere, tracking you would be easy in those days. At least it was not the Wild Wild West of the BBS realm that was happening at the same time.
If the internet were still like that today, a lot of people would not be on it! I'd say 99.5% of them would not be on it!
Edit: Somewhere in my collection of software, I have several Gopher Servers for the 68K Mac. It's from the PISM Book "Providing Internet Service through the Macintosh OS." It was listed as Shareware.
But in those days things were honest and reliable. And since you had to log in from somewhere, tracking you would be easy in those days. At least it was not the Wild Wild West of the BBS realm that was happening at the same time.
If the internet were still like that today, a lot of people would not be on it! I'd say 99.5% of them would not be on it!
Edit: Somewhere in my collection of software, I have several Gopher Servers for the 68K Mac. It's from the PISM Book "Providing Internet Service through the Macintosh OS." It was listed as Shareware.