Any old gopher users care to share their earliest experiences?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/209144

I've been delving into Gemini protocol and gopher quite a bit lately and came across a good historical dig about gopher by ~szczezuja and wanted to find more. Love to hear what it was used for and the community it had, especially in the 90s. I feel the community is different these days. Source on gopher: gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/szczezuja/novice