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Happy to see Gopher listed! We even have a HN portal on Gopher which is pretty well suited for the folder listing format.
https://github.com/michael-lazar/hn-gopher
Another article which mention both FTP and Dropbox. The infamous top comment on the Dropbox HN launch back in 2007 is what led me down the rabbit hole of building a Dropbox like UI for FTP and generalise the approach to work with any storage backend: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
FTP is amazing on so many perspective. About a month ago, I crawled the entire IPv4 range looking for anonymous FTP and found about 200k of them. As I wanted to publish the results and provide a way to get through those server, I ended up building crawlers but stopped that project as the sheer amount of movies, series, music I got would probably cause more problems than it's worth.