I thought that's what it'd be about too, and was disappointed to see that goofy blue cartoon rat instead.

And yes, some people use the Gopher protocol, in the same way that some people try writing with mechanical typewriters instead of computers. http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw? http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org:70/