As an example Floodgap has weather information, feeds, xkcd strips, a Figlet gateway and Gopher link shortener, file archives for classic Macintosh software in particular, among others. And that's just Floodgap's server, elsewhere there are independent phlogs (blogs over Gopher), text adventure games (mozz.us), music, more files..

It may seem obsolete but there's a passionate community behind it. It just looks like that since it doesn't have wide-spread encryption and most clients have tried to treat gopher menus just as basic web pages. Although you can do that, it really limits what clients can do; I could drag mp3 files out of a Gopher menu onto my desktop with Cyberdog, and no client quite like that has come for modern systems (yet), nor can you do that with a webpage. I believe Gopher should be thought of as an improved anonymous FTP rather than a stripped down Web.