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I’ll never forget the moment I realized my AI assistant was completely useless without an internet connection. I was on a flight, trying to work on a project that needed some quick Wikipedia lookups, and suddenly my supposedly “intelligent” assistant became as helpful as a brick. That’s when I started thinking: what if AI assistants could access knowledge offline?
There’s something beautifully ironic about using a protocol from 1991 to power cutting-edge AI assistants in 2024. When I first started building gopher-mcp, people thought I was either nostalgic or slightly unhinged. But here’s the thing—sometimes the old ways of doing things teach us something profound about simplicity, focus, and what the internet could have been.
I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately—it’s one of those technologies that makes you go “why didn’t we have this sooner?” After building a couple of MCP servers (gopher-mcp and openzim-mcp), I’m excited to share what I’ve discovered about this game-changing approach to AI tooling.
Update (June 2025): I’ve split this comprehensive guide into two focused articles for better readability: