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A few Potentially Asked Questions:It's a text-based menu-driven document retrieval system dating to the late pre-Septembrian era of the Internet, a kind of alternative approach to distributed document sharing that ended up being the Betamax to WWW's VHS. You can ask it for a text document it has and it'll be like okay, here you go, here's that document.Visit the address gopher://gopher.metafilter.com with a gopher client. Of which there are at least a few, though it's not exactly piping hot tech radness so it's a little more effort to find a client than it is to find a web browser. That said, here's a few options, and folks in the thread here may know of more: OverbiteFF is a FireFox plugin that will allow native gophering in that browser. iGopher is an inexpensive iPhone gopher app Lynxlet is an OSX terminal app of the Lynx web browser, with gopher support built inRecent posts and comments from all the MetaFilter subsites, automatically updated every 15 minutes, plus the MeFi FAQ.No. Or yes. Not really sure, actually. It was fifteen years ago and Matt doesn't even work here any more, so.Because someone from the community asked us to and it wasn't too much trouble once pb started looking into the implementation details, so we talked it out and—Look, I don't have to explain myself to you, I—Maybe! If folks have ideas for specific kinds of content from the site that they think would be a good fit, this'd be a great place to brainstorm about it. The current content just seemed like a good simple starting point for a proof-of-concept of the whole deal.Basically nothing, MeFi server has a lot more RAM these days.SO MANY