# Internet Archive Gopher Search Interface

After my post on gopher resources [0], Ben Collver was nice enough
to send me an email and point out his Internet Archive (IA) gopher
search interface [1]. He has a post giving the details, including
how to use it [2].

I've played with it a bit, and it is really great as a substitute
search. I use the IA a lot, and the gopher interface opens up the
site to older clients - the IA has made the actual assets available
via plain http from their backend servers, the only thing that was
previously blocking older browsers from using the IA was their
insistence on modern TLS for the web frontend.

[0]: gopher://sdf.org/0/users/thinknix/glog/resources-retro-systems-no-or-absent-ssl-tls.md
[1]: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/
[2]: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/log/2024-07-30-pharos-gopher-frontend-to-internet-archive/