And here's Pico, what a great editor!  But how do I link all of this
together?

Welp, it looks like lynx is a good browser for gopher space.
lynx gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/users/merv will do it.

The descriptors tell what you're looking for, e.g. the line above is looking
for a directory.

 Item tag    Type      Description
 --------------------------------------------
 (none)        0       file
 /             1       directory
 <)            s       sound file
 <Picture>    I,g      image file
 <Movie>       ;       movie file
 <HQX>         4       BinHexed Macintosh file
 <Bin>         9       binary file
 <PC Bin>      5       DOS binary file
 <CSO>         2       CSO (ph/qi) phone-book server
 <TEL>         8       telnet connection
 <3270>        T       telnet connection (IBM 3270 emulation)
 <MIME>        M       Multi-purpose  Internet  Mail  Extensions
  file
 <HTML>        h       HyperText Markup Language file
 <?>           7       index-search item
 <??>        (none)    ASK form

Hmmm, so I can upload a ton of stuff here.  Pictures too???
.