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Fair enough. I just consider it quicker wikipedia, especially for very simple lookups. For what it's worth, I googled "gopher", which, shockingly, showed me pictures of gopher. "Gopher network" showed me an online network dedicated to gophers. XD
I 100% get the AI hate, but it did explain it to me, pointed me to a browser, which I installed, and now I'm on Gemini, so I learned something and gemini got a new user.
If you search DuckDuckGo for “gopher alternative web”, the very first few hits are about the gemini protocol, relevant wikipedia links, and an article to small internet hypertext movements.
AI already rot your brain, you can't identify the three basic keywords, from the original comment, that will lead you to a sensible web search. Of course, if you just search “gopher” most things will be about the animal that it is named after. However, even if you just search gopher, DDG still sneaks a result to the wikipedia disambiguation page. Where you'd learn that gopher is also the name of a species of turtle, a french last name, a biblical character, and an US university's sport teams. I wonder which of those has anything to do with web development? It's not hard, just use your brain and stop delegating your every thought to LLMs.
Also, it is extremely rude to interject in a human conversation with AI.