Gopher and HTTP are internet technologies, with Gopher using a menu-style document formatting that is easy to search and index but less resource intensive, while HTTP has more developed semantics, richer formatting with HTML but more complex searching and indexing and is more resource intensive. Additionally, Gopher was primarily used by technical folks and for private use, while HTTP is now widely used publicly and commercially.

1. Gopher Vs HTTP
Internet Technology
(B.Sc. CSIT TU)
Sandip Basnet

2. SN Gopher HTTP
1 Document formatting is in menu style Document formatting is in HTML
2 Minimalistic Semantics Rich and well developed semantics
3 Easy Search and Indexing Searching and Indexing are complex
4 Request are less resource intensive Request are more resource intensive
5 Barely Commercelized Highly Commercelized

3. SN Gopher HTTP
6 Largely Private Largely Public
7 Limited use only technica folks Widely Used
8 Can be accessed through gopher
client
Can be accessed through web client, web
browsers.
9 Less mature More mature
10 For example: gopher://sdf.org For example: https://www.netflix.com/

4. References
1) http://boston.conman.org/2019/01/12.2
2) https://mmn.lgbt/gopher/
3) http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/gopher.1.html
4) https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm