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Brief: lol i did gopher too

Maybe Gemini is next
Brief: lol i did gopher too
A gopher

gopher://blog.wjboll.es:7005

Gopher is an ancient networking protocol that predates HTTP and ultimately lost the race.

The code is slap-dash and needs a refactor, but I came across this project:

GitHub - michael-lazar/flask-gopher: A Flask extension to support the Gopher protocol
A Flask extension to support the Gopher protocol. Contribute to michael-lazar/flask-gopher development by creating an account on GitHub.

I mostly ported over the Flask project code and adapted it to the oddness of Gopher. To keep it simple I just converted the HTML to Markdown.

Running out of food metaphors that make any sense (Gopher Example)
Requisite command line example of this post in Gopher