One of my most magnificently grand stupid ideas was to create a strange boondoggle thing that kind of reinvented Gopher combined with the web and linked data.<p>The exciting action starts at 1:30 if you want to see the outcome of software developed at great expense with really no useful purpose.<p>Ladies and gentlemen: &quot;NeoGopher&quot; (New Gopher)<p>Essentially it let you browse through linked lists.  Each list item could link on to another list or to a web page.  Each list was created by about 15 lines of JavaScript which could be loaded from any web server and the data came from any HTTP web API.<p>(turn the sound down, the words serve only to confuse)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yuSDU0JiI2c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yuSDU0JiI2c</a><p>Ahhh... so many meaningless words in the demo.  Even I, who designed it, found it hard to explain what it was - today I would say &quot;It&#x27;s a linked list browser.&quot;, which is what Gopher was.<p>Of all the stupid ideas I have had (there have been many), re-inventing Gopher was probably the worst. What was I thinking?