DiggieDog: A Gopher Client

Matthew Potter

About this app

Explore the quiet, lightweight corners of the internet with DiggieDog, a simple and friendly Gopher client for Android.

Before the World Wide Web took over in the mid-1990s, Gopher offered a fast, organised, text-based alternative for browsing information online. Built around the classic protocol described in RFC 1436, Gopher is still alive and kicking today through hobbyist servers, educational archives, retro computing communities, personal phlogs, software mirrors, documents, and experimental "small internet" projects.

DiggieDog makes it easy to browse Gopherspace from your Android device. Whether you are into retro computing, internet history, minimalist browsing, text-based protocols, or just curious about what exists beyond the modern web, DiggieDog gives you a clean entry point for digging in.

There is still a surprising amount to discover. You just need to dig a little.

Features
* Browse Gopher sites directly from Android
* Simple, lightweight interface
* Explore text-based pages, menus, files, and archives
* Great for retro internet fans, hobbyists, researchers, small web explorers and digital archeologists
* Supports the classic Gopher protocol

DiggieDog is for anyone curious about the internet before everything became feeds, ads, popups, and infinite scroll.

Start exploring Gopherspace today!

Ratings and reviews

I love this and have been using it for nine months on an almost daily basis to explore Gopherspace and keep up on the "phlogs". The only thing I'm really missing is a "dark/night mode" (with white text on black background, or similar). I don't know if it would be worth the extra effort to set up a "PRO" version, but I, for one, would happily pay to help fund additional features. (I'm all too aware that time, not money, is the real limiting factor for any labor of love.) Thanks for creating this!

Sorely needs an update. -Can't enter paths when entering URLs. -Hamburger menu is hidden by back button -Home and bookmark buttons simply add or change bookmark or home gopher. The only way to access them is the hidden hamburger menu. -No dark mode. Bookmarks and home are great, but they're nearly rendered useless outside of the startup page.

I love it!!! Recently I ditched css and went XHTML 1.0 strict because I was sick and tired of, well css, js and all that stuff. Now I am deeply interested in the Gopher protocol because of its simplicity. This app helps me tremendously to understand Gopher by just go to the sites and simply read data.. Perhaps the only thing I'd ask for is adding a dark mode to the app for the sheer reason that a white background when it is dark outside can be. Illuminating, if you catch my drift.

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