Keybindings:
file:
is enough, in an anchor tag here, to access
the local filesystem (not on the gopher server, but 'here' - 'on' the
personally–owned host PC that's running the gopher client).
When this HTML is encountered, the local gopher client launches the local text-based HTTP client (lynx). That's all that is going on there. The lynx on the far side isn't reachable (that would require a login, over there, which isn't this present environment).
This document written from the perspective of a person browsing this gopher, rather than the person authoring it 'somehow' ;)
Finally, this (HTML) document resides on the gopher server, on the far end of the (Internet-facilitated) connection. ;)
But.. ?
Yeah. ;)
This is html .. but it is also a text file. The gophermap says to the gopher browser 'hey this is html - do the right thing, right now, in this context'.
And here we are. ;)
Use lynx (or whatever) to gopher back to where this came from, using the following hypertext link (with a 'gopher:' first-part):
Back to godhead joke!
See also: Gopher tutorial