

FYI your Gopher link doesn’t work for some reason (or not for me, anyway)
When I copy the link it comes up as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol
I guess the missing bracket at the end is the issue, but not sure.
This works for me, so in case it helps anyone else… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
UK here, not an expression I recognise either. “By the pound”, yes, but that’s a unit of weight rather than currency.