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I have a gopher hole. So do a few hundred other people on this planet. The Gopher-sphere's a slow, thoughtful place.

How would one go about exploring the gopher-sphere?

You can access gopher using a regular browser through Floodgap's proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

A good gopher hole to visit to find recently-updated material is here: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/

Using a terminal, the old lynx browser is probably the most widely available and user-friendly client.

If you want a GUI, Skyjake's Lagrange browser is beautiful and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange

cURL and netcat are gopher clients, of course ... but it's likely easier to start with a chrome extension, eg:

and reading up a bit:

then dip a toe into the community forums.