I have a gopher hole. So do a few hundred other people on this planet. The Gopher-sphere's a slow, thoughtful place.
How would one go about exploring the gopher-sphere?
You can access gopher using a regular browser through Floodgap's proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw
A good gopher hole to visit to find recently-updated material is here: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/
Using a terminal, the old lynx browser is probably the most widely available and user-friendly client.
If you want a GUI, Skyjake's Lagrange browser is beautiful and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange