A distributed information service developed at the University of Minnesota, that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet. Gopher uses a simple protocol, defined in RFC 1436, that allows a single Gopher client to access information from any accessible Gopher server, providing the user with a single "Gopher space" of information. Public domain versions of the client and server are available. See also: archie, archive site, Prospero, Wide Area Information Servers. [Source: RFC1392
Special software developed at the University of Minnesota that provided access to resources on the internet before the popularity of browsers.
A menu-driven program developed at the University of Minnesota that helps you locate and retrieve information on the Internet.
A once popular way to browse incredible amounts of information on the Internet through the use of menus. Gopher is somewhat of a precursor to the Web.
Though not as popular as FTP or http, the gopher protocol is implemented by many browsers and numerous other programs and allows the transfer of files across networks. In some respects it can be thought of as a hybrid between FTP and http, although it tends not to be as good at raw file transfer as FTP and is not as flexible as http. The collection of documents available through gopher is often called "gopherspace", and it should be noted that gopherspace is older than the web. It should also be noted that gopher is not getting as much attention as it once did, and surfing through gopherspace is a little like exploring a ghost town, but there is an interesting VR interface available for it, and some things in gopherspace still have not been copied onto the web.
An Internet search facility, which allows the user to search through a hierarchically organized set of menus in order to find a particular file. Gopher menus categorize files according to content (e.g., "libraries," "phonebooks"), as determined by a human being, not a computer.
software that makes accessing text documents, other gophers, telnet and FTP sites easy, because you simply make a choice from a menu.
A menu-based information retrieval system for exploring Internet resources, which began as the University of Minnesota's campus- wide information system (like Penn's PennInfo, MIT's TechInfo, and Princeton's PNN). Like these systems, Gopher supports different "client" interfaces, including VT100 terminal, Macintosh, and others. Unlike these systems, which rely on one central computer to store the menus and documents, Gopher is designed to interconnect numerous "servers" into one seamless web of information. "Veronica" is a service that maintains an index of titles of Gopher items, and provides keyword searches of those titles. "Archie" is a system that provides keyword indexing of public FTP servers on the Internet. To view or retrieve information located by Archie requires FTP client software (unless the FTP server is also a Gopher server).
A protocol developed by the University of Minnesota for text-based distributed document search and retrieval based on a client/server model. Gopher is the term used for the protocol, the server software, and the client software. Access to gopher sites is now integrated into most Web browsers and for all practical purposes gopher, as a viable Internet resource, is extinct.
GOPHER servers are similar to Web servers except that they do not support true hypertext; everything is either a plain text document or a menu. They are not permitted for use within the Cavendish.
A text-based distributed document delivery and retrieval system once used over the Internet. It predates, and has been superseded by, hypertext documents on the Web.
A menu-based system for browsing Internet information.
A protocol for distributed document index and retrieval across the Internet. Machines which run Gopher can make document s available to users on remote machines using a simple to use program called gopher. The gopher program accesses information on cooperating computers without the user signing on, or even needing to be aware of where the information is begin served from.
essentially a text-only precursor of the World Wide Web - the user explores a Gopher server using a menu-driven interface. - pges of textual information are often available, and also search interfaces to databases - largely died the death since the World Wide Web stole its thunder
a menu-based system for exploring Internet resources; so named both because it originated at the University of Minnesota, home of the Golden Gophers, and because one uses it to "go fer" stuff.
An older, text-based hyperlink mechanism that has since been superseded by the graphical World-Wide-Web.
An Internet tool that organizes topics into a menu system that users can employ to find information. Gopher alos transparently connects users with the Internet server on which the information resides.
An early Internet server document browsing and searching system that let you look all over the Internet for texts of interest and helped you to retrieve them. Gopher has for the most part been replaced by browsers.
text retrieval system (still working - predecessor of WWW)
Gopher is an application that was developed at the University of Minnesota to help organize files on the Internet. Named after the school's football mascot, Gopher is a subject-based, menu-driven guide to finding and retrieving directories of information on the Internet.
An increasingly obsolete alternative to the Internet, Gopher is hierarchically devided and can be accessed in much the same way.
n. A protocol that provides a menu-driven interface for accessing files and information on other computers over the Internet. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota; the name "Gopher" originates from the Minnesota school mascot, which is the Golden Gopher.
Gopher --named for the rodent mascot of the University of Minnesota, where it was devised-- is a menu-driven system for browsing text resources on the Internet. Gopher was wildly popular between 1992 and 1994, but has now been almost completely swallowed up by the World Wide Web. There may be some documents still only available in this form, but they may be quite old. Web browsers can still view gopher documents. Gopher URLs begin with "gopher://". Back | Top of glossary
Before the World Wide Web, Gopher was the method of choice for finding resources located on the Internet. It was developed at the University of Minnesota and named after their mascot.
A fast and easy menudriven application that organizes and presents Internet resources
A menu-driven computer system that allows you to access information on the Internet.
A text based distributed information system, developed at the University of Minnesota. It allows world-wide topic searching and file retrieval via menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a Client-Server system, which requires that the user has a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher has spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is being largely supplanted by the World Wide Web. See also: Client, Server, WWW, Hypertext
Forerunner of the World Wide Web, invented at the University of Minnesota and named after its mascot. It was the most important tool for finding Internet resources, before the breaktrough of the World Wide Web.
A menu-based navigation aid found on the Internet which enables access to other computers, search for information, link to Usenet or download files without even realising you are communicating halfway across the world. It is a very easy tool to use and makes fun of exploring the Net. Similar to Archie in function, it also takes advantage of the WAIS facilities. See also Veronica.
The Gopher technology was invented at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot ...
Gopher is an Internet utility for finding textual information and presenting it to the user in the form of hierarchical menus. Gopher only recognizes lists (menus) and files (information).
is a text-based information system which is slowly being replaced by the World Wide Web.
A predecessor to the World Wide Web, was a means of navigating a sequence of menus on different servers. Gopher created links from one gopher site to another. With the arrival of the Web and its hypertext navigation ability, Gopher's usefulness has largely disappeared.
a method of document retrieval via the internet, now almost completely superseded by HTTP
Menu-based format used in gopher client software and most Web browsers for accessing information on the Internet. You can gopher to a Telnet or FTP site.
Gopher is an old menu-driven Internet tool used to organize files at a site. Gopher sites can be accessed from Web browsers. When a URL points to a file that's stored on a Gopher server, the URL always begins with gopher://.
A document retrieval system from the University of Minnesota. Gopher sites cannot be accessed through the web.
A search tool that presents information in a hierarchical menu system somewhat like a table of contents.
Software used on the Internet for providing a distributed information delivery system around which a world/campus-wide information system can readily be constructed
Gopher is a protocol developed by the University of Minnesota for searching information data bases.
Gopher describes a piece of software that presents menu material on the Internet, usually grouped by subject. Gopher was used more extensively before the popularity of the World Wide Web.
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A text based Internet protocol which transfers information from one computer to another. It is being replaced with the more popular GUI based http. It was developed at the University of Minnesotta and was given the name of the school's mascot. Graphics Interchange Format. Developed in 1987 by CompuServe. This bitmapped format came into being because people wanted to exchange inmages between different platforms. This format is now use on almost every platform that supports graphical applications. GIF format is not only a standard image type for WWW browsers, it is also the only image type that can be used for inline images on all platforms. The one drawback of GIF format is that it is limited to 256 colors.
protocol for building a global catalogue of information held on computers which are connected the internet. "Gopherspace" is a deeply-nested tree of Tables of Contents for electronic documents.
A browsing and searching system that lets you look for and retrieve documents of interest from all over the Internet. It is a menu-based system that doesn't require you to know the details of host or file names. Developed at the University of Minnesota, it was named after the school's mascot.
The term “gopher” is actually a pun on “go for”. It is a computer program with an accompanying data transfer protocol. Gopher is used to read information on the Internet that has been made available to the public. It is being superseded by newer Internet browsers that can read HTTP, such as Netscape and Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
An information retrieval system widely used on the Internet.
A computer program that permits browsing in search of Internet resources. Gopher enables you to retrieve items without having to know the technical details of where the resources are located and how to operate the programs that retrieve them. Gopher uses the client-server retrieval method. You use the Gopher client that is available on your host system and this client helps you contact Gopher servers on other hosts. Gopher also organizes information into a hierarchy of menus so it is easier to find.
A distributed information service that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet, users navigate through hierarchical menus.
Predecessor to the World Wide Web a text based version of our web site. There are many lists of valuable sources of information including Business Information Centers, SCORE, Small Business Development Centers, Small Business Investment Companies, and Veterans Affairs Officers.
Internet search and retrieve protocol.
A special system of information on the Internet.
gopher ("go-fer") is a browsing tool for finding information on the Internet. Predating the more famous World Wide Web, gopher is a strictly text tool. That makes it quicker to navigate (because you don't need to wait for large graphics files to download) and easier to index (because all gopher menu choices are text, whereas many Web links are graphical images.) Nevertheless, because of its "point and click" interface, the Web has proven vastly more popular, and many gopher site administrators are beginning to neglect their gopher sites in favour of putting up Web sites. Still, gopher is not completely dead. It is always possible to access a gopher resource through the World Wide Web. For instance, to access the Wheaton College gopher site, you could click on a URL of: gopher://gopher.wheaton.edu/11/Church.
A method of finding and connecting different types of information on the Internet. A precursor to the Worldwide Web.
A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources, Gopher was the precursor to the World Wide Web. Many locations, including MHC, no longer support Gopher.
A tool developed at University of Minnesota for setting up information rich resources behind a menu-driven interface. Gopher servers incorporate text and graphics, file ransfer using FTP, links to remote services via Telnet, and other gopher servers. Many sites offer a large and varied selection of services and files, and the contents of gopher servers are often searchable using Veronica.
A client/server systems for publishing information on the Internet in a menu-oriented fashion. To access Gopherspace, you use your own Gopher client or use telnet to get to a publicly accessible system and use its Gopher. See also Veronica.
Information searching system by keywords to navigate on Internet.
A system of menus and submenus used to facilitate access to documents available on the computers connected to the Internet.
lists of links on the Internet -- called a protocol when it is part of a URL
an ancient tool developed at the University of Minnesota displays menus that allow you to access network resources by moving an on-screen pointer. The idea is to simplify the process of using network information. Gophers can point to text files, Telnet sites, WAIS databases, and on, and on, and on.
Document protocol for distributed document search, more information ...
A text based system for displaying and retrieving Internet documents through the use of text menus. Gopher has been primarily replaced by your web browser, although some universities and government agencies will still use Gopher as it is fast due to the fact is only text based information. You can view Gopher sites through your web browser. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota. Named after the school's mascot (The "Golden Gophers"). In addition, it is named Gopher as it "goes for" information.
This popular protocol lets clients retrieve Internet resources. The Gopher protocol lets you access flies and directories across the Internet. A Gopher client can search and retrieve information from hundreds of gopher servers on the Internet to give the user a seamless view of the distributed information. A system that displays Internet documents. You just select a menu choice and the gopher will either display a document or transfer you to a different gopher system. Gophers get their name from the mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the first gopher system was born. U of Minn. Gopher Menu.
A method of distributing information by computers that has waned in popularity to ftp. Most gopher files contain only text information with few images, audio, or video components. Files can be downloaded with a similar protocol like ftp.
An older method of navigating the Internet, developed at the University of Minnesota. It displays information and links to documents, but is not graphics-based and is more difficult to use than the World Wide Web. Gopher is rapidly being replaced by the World Wide Web.
Software, pre-dating the Web, that searches, retrieves and displays information on the Internet. Creates a hierarchy of menus for navigation.
is a non-graphical Internet browser, mainly used by academic institutions. Every page offers you a menu with a number of other menu items or documents. Unlike WWW you “climb†from the roots to the ends of the branches but it is usually difficult to jump from one branch to another.
"Gopher," is a menu driven system that links you to other Internet sites around the world. You can access it with special Gopher software or most Web browsers will also allow you to access Gopher menus. In some cases, web sites will automatically link you to gopher sites. When you access Gopher you get a series of menus, one of which lets you connect to other Gophers in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and other locations around the world.
Utility that enables users to search for, retrieve, and view various types of information from servers on the Internet.
network ed information retrieval system that offers a menu interface to Internet information. Menus are usually hierarchically nested, and may list items of many different types, for instance, directories, text files, picture or sound files. Gopher menus not only list information on gopher servers, but they may also include items from other Internet information systems such as WAIS index searches or telnet sessions. Gopher menus present an integrated and consistent interface to information located on many different Internet servers. http://www.infospace.com/info.gopher
other than being an animal, is an internet tool for searching for files. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is sort of like CB radio from the 1970s. It links users from all different internet systems from all over the world. You can even create channels of your own.
An ‘ancientâ€(tm) method of making information available over the Internet. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by HTML.
A menu-based network information system devised at the University of Minnesota.
An Internet server document browsing and searching system that lets you search and retrieve texts on the Internet. Gopher has since been surpassed by the World Wide Web.
A system for hierarchically organizing and navigating documents on distant computers, implemented extensively at college campuses and research facilities in the early 1990s. It was quickly overshadowed by the much more usable world wide web interface and is rarely used today.
A navigation service named after the University of Minnesota's sports teams. Gopher software enables you to search for, retrieve, and view various types of information from Gopher servers on the Internet. Gopher servers store mainly text-based documents locally as well as maintaining links to related sources of information at other sites.
A system that lets you find information on the Internet by using menu.
An application whose purpose is to locate, retrieve & record information from the Internet. Developed at the University of Minnesota in 1991. The word Gopher takes its name from the words "Go for" - somebody who goes and gets anything that you ask of him or her.
A text-oriented, hierarchically organized, distributed information service that uses a simple protocol to enable Gopher clients to access information from any other accessible Gopher server.
Internet protocol for presenting menus of downloadable documents or files. It is still around, but has no real importance anymore. See also HTTP, Hypertext, WWW.
A means of accessing information on the Internet, it preceded the World Wide Web. Web browsers can access gopher sites. Much of the material on those sites is outdated, but some of it may be current.
A menu-driven system for searching on-line information resources on the Internet.
client program available via the Internet that allows users to review and retrieve information on other host systems via easy-to-use menus.
A program on the Internet that organizes information into menus and lets users jump from one point on the "net" to another.
A menu-based system for organizing and distributing information on the Internet, that allows users to browse or download files and directories. Simpler to use but similar in functionality to FTP. A key feature is the ability to include menu items that connect the user to other Gopher servers. Developed at the Univ. of Minnesota, and partially named after their mascot.
In UNIX-based systems linked to Internet, a menu-based program that helps you find files, programs, definitions, and other resources on topics you specify. Unlike FTP and Archie, the Internet Gopher does not require you to know and use the details of host, directory, and file names. Instead, you browse through menus, pressing Enter when you find something interesting. You usually see another menu, with more options, until finally you select an option that displays information on-screen. You can then read it or save it to your disk storage area.
Software that searches and retrieves documents on remote computers for display on yours. Information is presented via menus
any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
a character-oriented tool that allows you to move from site-to-site, looking at a system of menus, when you are trying to find information
a menu-driven information service that is accessible electronically over the Internet
a menu system that simplifies locating and using Internet resources
an application where files that were organized in a hierarchy can be brought from servers all over the world to a view on your computer
an information system residing on the Internet that knows where everything is and, through an arrangement of nested menus, allows a user to continue choosing menu items until the sought-after subject is located
an Internet browsing service set up as a series of menus
a small burrowing rodent from North and Central America, but it also happens to be the punning name of a wonderful Internet tool developed by the University of Minnesota
a computer program developed at the University of Minnesota to allow computer users to find information on other computers. Gopher was a predecessor of the World Wide Web.
A menu-driven information system that transparently connects users to other Internet sites.
A system that pre-dates the WWW for organising and displaying files on the internet. Gophers present their contents as a series of hierarchically arranged menus displaying the titles of documents and directories lower down the tree. The world of Gopher menus in known as Gopherspace. Gopherspace has been mostly replaced by the WWW but can still be searched via your browser.
Developed at the University of Minnesota, a system whereby many types of information can be displayed and accessed in a simple, menu-based structure.
A simple menu-based information service. Gopher clients present lists of items that can be downloaded or displayed, as well as items that are links to other directories or servers.
Text-based predecessor to the Web. Used a protocol different than http, but supported the idea of hyperlinks.
An Internet search tool that allows users to access textual information through a series of menus.
A menu-based system used in organizing and retrieving files and programs on the Internet. Gopher allows access to files found on FTP servers, as well as to files normally accessed through Telnet, Archie or WAIS programs. Each Gopher server has its own unique menu of files and programs. Gopher servers and menus can be accessed through Gopher programs and some World Wide Web browsers.
A hierarchical menu program for accessing information across the Internet.
A server that acts as a table of contents for the Web. After you select an element from the Gopher list by using a mouse, you can open another menu (and another and another) until you pick a file and are transferred to the site on which it is stored.
A program that displays information found on Internet Gopher servers. Gopher servers contain a wide variety of information and resources (such as programs and images) organized in menus, to make it easier to find information. Home page A commonly used World Wide Web (WWW) document. A home page often resembles a snazzy table of contents with hyperlinks to other WWW servers around the world. Mosaic is pre-configured with its own Home page. In addition, many companies, universities, and individuals have their own Home pages.
A widely used Internet tool for finding and retrieving files of all kinds throughout the Internet. It is a menu-oriented, client/server system, with a top menu at each Gopher site leading to many submenus and files throughout the Internet.
Client-server software providing flexible access to Internet resources; developed at the University of Minnesota.
A tool that organized information by means of a hierarchy of menus. Gopher is now buried under mountains of WWW pages - don't bother learning how to use this directly. You sometimes will find a Web link that takes you to a Gopher site, but at that point, if you're using Netscape, its usage will be obvious and will look a great deal like the Web.
Gopher is a tool that indexes FTP sites where files are stored. It also provides a search engine so that you can find specific files at these sites.
A standard protocol for driving menu-based indexing of computer resources on the Internet.
A line-mode Internet protocol that predates the Web. Web browsers can normally communicate with gopher servers.
A service that provides menus listing files available over the Internet.
See also..., See also... A versatile menu-driven information service.
A menu-based server system for finding and retrieving resources on the Internet. Gopher is text based.
Online, Client/server-based system developed at the University of Minnesota. Largely replaced by the WORLD WIDE WEB.
Service for linking documents and sites on the Internet in which information is arranged in a hierarchy of menus. A fore-runner to the WWW.
An early Internet Protocol. Gopher is character based browser so only text contents can be retrived and viewed by this mean. Since it was one of the main internet software widely used before 80's, Also, many historical database were only text data so Grpher is still supported by many servers. » Back to top of screen
A method of allowing for searching and retrieving information on the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, and allows fast access to information by category rather than address. See also Archie, Client, Server, World Wide Web, Hypertext.
Gopher was the most popular document retrieval system around until the web came along. It provides an interface to a menu of documents such as a text file, image, or sound clip. Additionally, some sites provide search capabilities. To open a gopher location, you need a gopher client. Luckily, most web browsers support the gopher protocol. You can just enter the gopher:// location as you would any URL. see also: WWW
The precurser to the world Wide Web and mostly obsolete these days. it A hit refers to a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server. If a web page contains 3 graphics then viewing the entire page for the first time would generate 4 hits.... 1 for the html document and 3 for the images
A distributed information service that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet. Gopher uses a simple protocol that allows a single gopher client to access information from any accessible gopher server, providing the user with a single "gopher space" of information. The clients are generally text menu-based. Public domain versions of the client and server are available.
A menu-based system for searching web resources. Items are arranged hierarchically in layers, and each is either a file or folder.
A tool used to search the internet for information.
A distributed information service that makes collections of interesting information available across the Internet.
A menu-based system that enables you to browse and retrieve files from Gopher servers.
Gopher is a system for organizing Internet information through a series of hierarchical menus. You search through descriptive menu entries without having to know the specific directory location and file name that contains the information you want. The menus are stored on special Internet sites called Gopher server computers. Gopher is also the front-end tool that can access Gopher menu systems on Gopher server computers.
a tool to navigate the electronic information highway, text only.
A system or navigational tool that enables the user to find information on the Internet by using menus. To use Gopher, the user telnets to a Gopher server and begins browsing the menus. The Gopher software was developed by the University of Minnesota for "tunneling" through the Internet.
Distributed information system using hierarchical menus. Originated at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot is the Golden Gophers.
A menu-based client/server information retrieval system for managing information within a local site, like SIUC, and for making telecommunication links to other Gophers around the world. This suite of programs was named for the University of Minnesota's mascot, and also because its telecommunication function "tunnels" throughout the Internet.
a method of serving or retrieving files over the Internet. It has largely been replaced by the Web.
An information retrieval system, common in the early days of the Net but now superseded by the WWW.
a menu-type program that helps users to locate and retrieve files on the Internet. (p. 30)
Protocol developed by the University of Minnesota. Gopher got its name from the University's mascot, the Golden Gopher. The term Gopher also describes the client-side software tool used to retrieve data from a Gopher server. Back to the Top
Not the kind that rips up golf courses, this Gopher is a menu-based tool that makes it easy to find files on the Internet.
An Internet information service developed at the University of Minnesota with linked directories but no linked documents. It is a menu driven, non-graphic system that connects users to other Internet sites. It was used before the World Wide Web existed and has been used less and less as the Web has grown.
A text-based information retrieval tool for finding and transferring FTP and Telnet files on the Net. Invented at the University of Minnesota and named after its mascot. It was the most important tool for finding Internet resources before the World Wide Web.
Older Internet system allowing you to search a series of lists to narrow your search.
A format structure and resource for providing information on the Internet. It was created at the University of Minnesota.
Allows the exchange of information, similar to the World Wide Web.
Protocol providing hierarchical menu-based information and access to Internet-based databases.
a text-based client-server information distribution system largely responsible for the first major growth of Internet traffic. Punfully named after the school mascot of U. of Minn., where the system was developed.
Gopher is an old menu based system to find text-based resources on the Internet using a system of menus.
A hierarchical text-based distribution and publishing system. Although some information still remains in gopher format, most new information is now being published using HTML for the World Wide Web.
A text-only, menu-driven Internet information system developed at the University of Minnesota that preceded the Web. It's still very common, and most Web browsers can connect to gopher servers.
Gopher ia a means for disseminating or discovering resources on the Internet through a menu interface. Menu items can be links to other documents, search utilities, or information services. Gopher is a menu-driven system.
A browser tool which facilitates retrieval of resources on the Internet in a relatively friendly way through a series of on-screen menus. Jughead and Veronica are two ancillary tools which, when used in conjunction with gopher, allow searching for items by directory titles or by directory titles and resources.
A browsing and searching system that helps people find and retrieve text on the Internet. Gopher displays a set of resources on the Internet as menus, or lists of items from which you can choose. You can travel around the Internet by selecting items from these menus -- you don’t have to know the addresses and you don’t need to know any other special commands.
an information service that provides hierarchical retrieval and collections of information.
Gopher is a menu-driven interface to Internet resources. Gopher servers are primarily text oriented with some graphics. No multimedia applications are available.
A system that enables you to find information by using menus. Less popular since the introduction of hypertext.
a computer software developed at the University of Minnesota that enables an individual searcher to locate information at remote computers at other sites. Many former gopher sites are now set up as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) documents on the World Wide Web and are not as useful as they had been in the past.
An Internet information distribution system developed at the University of Minnesota. The term Gopher can refer to a Gopher client program, to the protocol used, or to a Gopher server program, depending on the context.
A textual menu-based Internet browsing tool.
A subject-based, menu-driven guide or protocol for finding and retrieving directories of textual information on the Internet. (Unit 7 Tips for Using the Internet)
Internet protocol that allows users to find and retrieve data that is organized by text-based directories. It was released in 1991 by Paul Lindner and Mark McCahill of University of Minnesota.
a menu-driven system for internet information. It's simple to use. Gophers are accessible through the Web. Gopher managers are starting to transfer more and more information to web-based documents, but gopher's not completely out of the picture yet. Web browsers can access gopher files, so you will still find yourself being connected to gopher sites.
A menu-based system for browsing information stored inside gopher servers on the Internet. The software for Gopher was created and developed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot is the golden gopher. Internet browsers have gopher access capabilities built in. A rarely used portion of the Internet.
A menu-oriented tool used to locate online resources developed at the University of Minnesota.
Gopher is no longer used as much as it used to be due to the variety of connections that the World Wide Web has to offer, but used to be another easy way of getting around on internet through series of menus. See: RFC-1436 RFC-1700 port number: 70 Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota. See also: URL gopher . Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches or delivers documents for office staff. (computer tech.) Software following a simple protocol for tunneling through a TCP/IP internet.
A distriabuted information system similar to the World-Wide Web, but less versitile and generally used only for text files. Gopher is also the name of a gopher client program available on most UNIX-based systems.
A menu-driven interface for Internet services.
A program for accessing Internet information through hierarchical menus, gopher will "go for" the information you select and will display it on your screen. The World Wide Web (hypertext) has replaced most gopher navigation.
A popular distributed document retrieval system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at the University of Minnesota. Many hosts on the Internet now run Gopher servers which provide a menu of documents.
A utility that allows you to access publicly available information from the Internet. Gopher information appears in a directory structure that uses various icons to represent text, sound, video, and image files.
An information search and retrieval tool used mostly for research. Gopher information is stored hierarchically on computers across the Internet. It uses a simple protocol that allows a client to access information from a multitude of numerous Gopher servers at one time, creating what's known as "gopher space." The most common search tools in gopher are Veronica and Jughead. Gopher clients exist for most platforms.
A tool for finding information and resources on the Internet by following a series of menus. Gopher has largely been replaced by the World Wide Web.
A versatile menu-driven information system.
The Internet protocol in which files are displayed in a hierarchical menu and are retrieved based on user input. You can create gopher hyperlinks (gopher://) in the FrontPage Editor. | | | back to tech support main page
Programmers at the University of Minnesota -- home of the Golden Gophers --- developed a kind of menu to "go for" items on Internet, bypassing complicated addresses and commands. If you want to connect to the State Library in Albany you select that option off the menu. Time Magazine once described Gopher as a tool used for "tunneling quickly from one place on the Internet to another." Hence the term Gopher.
A menu-based program that tunnels between different computer networks in search of information.
A menu-based search and retrieval tool used for research. Gopher sites store information much like FTP sites. Some common search tools are Veronica and TurboGopher.
A precursor of the World Wide Web (see below). Gopher distributed text files that could be displayed by software programs (called gopher clients). Image and sound files could also be retrieved, but were not combined into a single display. Gopher was well-suited to limited bandwidth and slower computers that did not display graphics.
A menu-based client/server system for exploring information resources on the Internet. A Gopher client is seamlessly built into Web browsers, so you don't need a separate Gopher client program.
Gopher, a precursor to the Web, is a protocol for storing, organizing, and retrieving information on the Internet. Developed at the University of Minnesota, home of the "Golden Gophers," gopher allows you to navigate up and down through menus to access files. Once you find what you're looking for, Gopher can either download the file for you or display the text (provided it's a text file). Before the advent of the Web, gopher was the cutting edge in worldwide information retrieval, allowing you to navigate without typing in complex FTP commands, allowing you to actually browse, rather than choose a single destination. Gopher is usually used in one of three ways: from a Unix shell account, using a gopher client over a TCP/IP connection, or (most commonly) through a web browser. If you're out on the Web and suddenly everything is text and menus, look up at the location bar of your browser, if it displays something starting with "gopher://", you'll know you've entered gopherspace. Gophers are less and less common these days, however, as most people find web pages easier to maintain than gopher servers.
A menu-based search service for finding information and resources on the Internet.
A play on "go for." A menu-based browsing service on the Net. The user selects an item on the menu and is led to either a file or another menu.
A menu-based system for exploring Internet available file resources. While the user interface is graphical for most tools, the information is generally available as text.
Client/server software developed at the Univ. of Minnesota which provided a series of menus where any menu item could be linked to another menu, possibly at another computer somewhere else on the Internet. This was widely used before the rise of the World Wide Web and was efficient, but textual only, while the Web offers graphics and sound and more display options. Has almost disappeared.
A technology that is used to make files available over the Internet. Gopher has been largely replaced by HTTP servers and the WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet. See Also: Client , Server , WWW
Predecessor of the world-wide web. A menu-driven system offering text only. Users of the world-wide web can access gopher sites and retrieve information; world-wide web sites cannot be accessed from a gopher.
A search and retrieval tool for information used mostly for research.
A client/server application for indexing and retrieving information on the Internet. The predecessor to the World Wide Web.
an Internet program that locates document sites (gopher sites) displayed as "tree-style" menu; gopher sites are accessible through the Web, but they are not hypertexts
A program/protocol developed at the University of Minnesota which provides for a menu-driven presentation of a variety of Internet services, including WAIS, Telnet, and FTP.
A program that gives you easy access to dozens of other online databases and services by making selections on a menu.
protocol that searches for information using a menu style.
A set of protocols used to aid in searching for Internet resources. Named for the mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the system was developed. Before the advent of the Web, Gopher was the method of choice for "surfing" the Net; nowadays, it is considered obsolete. Gopher sites are usually accessible via Web browsers. Go to Top
A browsing and searching protocol that lets you find and retrieve text and files.
A highly successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a client-and-server style program, which requires that the user have a gopher client program. Although gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by hypertext, which is used by the World Wide Web. There are still many gopher servers on the Internet, which can be accessed using any web browser. In most cases, you will simply stumble upon a gopher server as you surf the WWW.
Once, a wide-based method of making menus of material available over the Internet. This Client and Server style program has largely been replaced by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web).
A program as well as type of protocol, it is used for getting and presenting information in a hierarchical order. Sites that are accessed this way are known as "gohper sites." The popularity of this once widely-used program has waned since the advent of the World Wide Web.
A menu driven information retrieval system which allows you to browse Internet resources. This program/software has been superceded by the World Wide Web.
A menu-driven interface for the internet. This system is now obsolete; it was almost entirely replaced by the world wide web four years ago, when I first encountered it.
A menu-based information system on the Internet popularized because of its ability to interconnect different Gopher sites on the same menu.
A popular protocol developed by the University of Minnesota that allows clients to access files and directories across the internet. A Gopher client can search and retrieve information from Gopher servers.
the application program that allows me to look at indices of indices leading to documents/information.
A tool for accessing network resources that was developed at the University of Minnesota (the school mascot is the gopher).
"Originated at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot is the Golden Gophers". Gopher is a very popular method of making menus of information and material which is accessible via the Internet. Gopher is being quickly replaced by the more popular Hypertext or world wide web.
A program for using Internet Gopher-Servers.
Often said to be the first incarnation of the World Wide Web. It is an information source based on textual links, now outdated and superceded by the Web.
An early Internet protocol and software program designed to search for, retrieve, and display documents from remote computers or sites. Gopher clients are used to connect to remote Gopher servers Interaction is typically carried out through a menu hierarchy.
A program which performs many Internet functions by transforming urls into menu options.
a system that uses menus and special software on host computers so that you can more easily navigate around the Internet.
a fore-runner of the World Wide Web. Gopher systems appear as a list of text items. Gophers can be used by Web browsers and gopher:// can appear at the start of a URL.
Does not refer to a small brown cuddly mammal, but to an Internet tool that lets you search for Information, files, graphics etc. using on-screen menus.
Distributed information service used to search and retrieve information on the Internet (inside of the 'Gopherspace'). See also: JOUGHEAD, VERONICA.
A method of serving or retrieving files over the Internet - the Web has largely replaced it.
a set of protocols used to search for Internet resources. Can be accessed in popular browsers by typing gopher:// into location box.
A menu-driven system for finding resources on the Internet.
communications: A menu-based system for exploring Internet resources.
A Gopher site has a hierarchically organised collection of documents, usually readable text files.
menu-driven system on a server machine that presents the files available for retrieval in a hierarchical fashion; Gopher is considered particularly easy to use because of the menu system
A system of menus layered on top of existing resources that makes locating information and using services easier. See Chapter 7.
A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet, first introduced in 1991. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is now being largely supplanted by hypertext. There are still thousands of Gopher servers on the Internet, though, and they will probably remain for a while yet. See also Veronica.
A menu-based method of searching for information on the Internet.
Internet Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval system. It takes a request for information and then scans the Internet for it. The protocol and software follows a client-server model, and permits users on a heterogeneous mix of desktop systems to browse, search, and retrieve documents residing on multiple distributed server machines.
A menu based service that lets you easily find information on the Internet. Gopher presents all information as either a directory of a file, and most Gopher servers let you search for information as well. More than 1,000 Gopher servers are available on the Internet, and Gopher client programs exist for almost every computer.
An older Internet service that provides a wide range of information in a typewritten format. Unlike the World Wide Web, gopher does not support hyperlinks or multimedia displays.
Software that allows you to search the Internet by using menus. See also menu.
A document retrieval system allowing users to search for files via menus or directory structures. Gopher sites can be accessed through the World Wide Web.
Although it sounds like it might be a cute little furry critter, this is the odd name given to a type of search tool on the Internet that allows you to get text and other information by using different menus. "Gopher" this and "gopher" that
A browsing and searching system that lets the user look for and retrieve documents from all over the Internet. It is a menu-based system that does not require the knowledge of host or file names. Early on in the days of the Internet, this type of text-based searching was most people's first choice. With the increasing use of the graphical Web, however, Gopher sites are not nearly as popular.
Invented at the University of Minnesota and named after its mascot, this is the direct precursor, in both concept and function, to the World Wide Web.
A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while.
One kind of gopher is the small, furry animal that likes to dig tunnels. Another kind of "gopher" can help you find information on the Internet! Using a gopher that you might have on your computer, you can "tunnel" to information you need by choosing from a list of topics. How does gopher work? If you start gopher, your computer screen might show a list of topics, one of which is Basketball Information. You choose Basketball Information, and get another list. You choose "Players" from this list, and get yet another list with the names of some famous basketball players. You choose Michael Jordan from the list, and get a page with lots of information about him. You have "tunneled" through all those lists to find what you need. When you use the Netscape browser, you can tell that you are in a gopher area when instead of bright pictures you see pictures of plain folders. You click on the folders to see the information that's in them.
An archaic computer program that permits browsing in search of Internet resources. Gopher was prevalent on the early Internet but is rarely found on the Web. Gopher was a rudimentary tool using the client-server retrieval method. A Gopher client available on a host system would contact Gopher servers on other hosts. Gopher organized information into a hierarchy of menus so it was easier to find. Two search programs, called Veronica and Jughead, provided keyword searching of Gopher sites. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota and named after the university's mascot.
gopher server. A connection using the Gopher protocol. Example: an information provider might list alternative addresses, indicating with the gopher symbol that some of them are Gopher connections. [test: &home;
A friendly menu system for exploring the Internet developed at the University of Minnesota. To learn more, explore gopherspace. See History.
A program that lets you browse the Internet and find information using menus.
A popular internet software that allows you to look in different internet libraries for information.
A popular text-based worldwide document search and retrieval protocol developed for the Internet.
A menu-based guide to directories on the Internet, usually organized by subject.
A distributed information service that makes available hierarchical collections of information across the Internet. Gopher uses a simple protocol that allows a single Gopher client to access information from any accessible Gopher server, providing the user with a single "Gopher space" of information. Public domain versions of the client and server are available. A gopher is older Internet technology that searches the indexes of computer systems. They are servers that offer pages with menus. They lack graphics and the visual richness of the Web pages but contain plentiful information that can be screened faster. While gopher sites still exist, most everything is migrating to the WWW technologies. All gopher sites can be accessed through the WWW. A tool was developed to search the gopher space called Veronica. It allows to find keywords in Gopher menus. You can search gophers oriented to particular subjects in the Gopher Jewels search interface. See also: archie, archive site, Wide Area Information Servers.
A common type of file storage on the Internet that allows users to download files. If you have a gopher helper application, you can specify the location of a gopher by prefixing gopher:// to the name of the file on the Gopher server.
The protocol, developed at the University of Minnesota, that provides a menu-driven interface for accessing files and information on other computers.
An area of the Internet that allows you to navigate the Internet using menus. You use a menu to tell the Gopher what you want. The Gopher will then "go for" the item you requested.
Older Internet software that breaks up the subjects on the Net into items and displays all the items on the Net as menus or directories. Like Archie and other early internet tools, WWW browsers have replaced the function of gopher.
A system that pre-dates the World Wide Web for organizing and displaying files on Internet servers. A Gopher server presents its contents as a hierarchically structured list of files.
A widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher is a client and server style program which requires that the user have a Gopher client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it is being supplanted largely by Hypertext, also know as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher servers on the Internet, and they can be expected to remain for a while. See client, server, WWW, and hypertext.
An information retrieval system created by the University of Minnesota. Many gopher sites are now Web oriented.
A way of finding information on the Internet which is in decline due to the rise of the web and search engines.
Text-based predecessor to the Web. Used a different protocol to http, but supported the idea of hyperlinks.
One of the first commonly used interfaces for the Internet with a format structure and resource for providing information. It was created at the University of Minnesota who's mascot is the gopher.
An Internet tool which organizes differnt on- line resources into easy to use menus.
A system of clients and servers, in menu format, that allows for navigation on the Internet. Back to the top
is a similar system to the Web but it is not as powerful principally because it does not use hypertext (see below). Gopherspace is a term used to describe the aggregate of all the information on the thousands of Gopher servers in the world.
Gopher is a public domain distributed document delivery system. It allows users to retrieve files without needing to know which Internet host contains the files or in what directory the files are stored.
A simple, menu-based system (named after the mascot of the University of Minnesota, where it was created) for searching and retrieving information from resources across the Internet. Gopher uses a simple protocol that allows a single Gopher client to access information from any accessible Gopher server, providing the user with a single menu of information. Menu topics may lead to hierarchically organized subtopics. Depending on the context, the term "Gopherspace" refers either to the whole collection of documents available from Gopher servers or to what's available based on the menu selections you've already made. Public domain versions of the client and server are available. The system can beaccessed by typing a Gopher URL in the Open URL dialog box.See also Archie, archive site, Wide Area Information Servers. WWWebfx Home Page
A menu-based system for exploring the Internet. Users locate resources by selecting resources from menus.
An Internet service for locating and delivering electronic files. The Gopher interface includes a directory tree and a set of menus which can be used for exploring the Internet and downloading files.
The Internet Gopher is a distributed document delivery system. It allows a neophyte user to access various types of data residing on multiple hosts in a seamless fashion.
An early database system used to store information on the Internet. Information in gopher servers (called gopher space) can be retrieved using search tools such as Veronica and Jughead. back to the top
A method of finding resources on the Internet.
A successful system of making menus of material available over the Internet developed by the University of Minnesota. Gopher uses a standard Client and Server style program. hacker - A person who is a computer guru who uses his expertise to "hack" into others computers.
A searching tool that was once the primary tool for finding information on the Internet before the WWW became popular. Gopher is now buried under massive amounts of WWW pages. See Also: Client, Hypertext, Server, WWW Page Top
An Internet tool developed at the University of Minnesota that offers a simple method of perusing and retrieving information on the Internet. Gopher provides an easy, menu-based means of navigating and searching for useful information, without having to know exactly where the desired resources are stored. A user must have an account from an Internet service provider with direct access to the Internet. Some Gopher sites allow "telnet" logins for those without Gopher client software.
a menu driven information service setup on a large computer (known as aserver), which interfaces with the gopher application on a users’ PC. Allows access to any gopher server in the world, thus making it easy to retrieve regional information. Many gopher servers are located at universities, and at national weather services.
Text-based menu system used to search for information.
An interface that allows access to resources on the Internet. Gopher servers contain menus that list categories of information to choose from. Gopher menus have the same function as hyperlinks in Web documents. You can access gopher servers using Internet Assistant. URLs of files on gopher servers begin with the string gopher:// head The head element is a collection of information about a document that is used by programs outside of the document. TITLE is the only mandatory tag in the head element. Note that although you do not need to add HEAD tags directly because Internet Assistant automatically adds them, you do need to create a TITLE tag for each document. For more information, click HTML Document Head Information.
Gopher (from the phrase "go for") can be considered an older version of the World Wide Web, but it's structure is a more rigid menu system, and doesn't have any graphics. If you'd like to play with Gopher, try a Veronica Search.
Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota for the display of plain text documents over the Internet and to support forms based applications. It was superseded by the web and is largely obsolete. Most web browsers will display gopher documents.
The predecessor of today's Internet browsers, this software allowed full browsing of the Internet but had no hypermedia capability. Gophers, being burrowing animals, represented the software's role of digging for information, besides punning on the word 'gofer' and on the fact that this animal symbolises the state of Minnesota, the home of the software developers.
an amiable beast, by now rather outdated, which digs through a text-based "gopher-space" for information.
A menu-based system for exploring Internet resources. Gopher has been largely superseded by the World Wide Web and Web browsers, although much useful information is still available from many Gopher sites. YaleInfo used to be a Gopher site before it migrated to the Web.
A software program created in 1991 at the University of Minnesota that relies on menus to retrieve text files. It was the first easy-to-use Internet search and browser system. Also known as a pre-Web menu driven document delivery system that organizes and helps the Internet users find information.
An application that allows you to access publicly available information on Internet hosts that provide Gopher service.
A menu-driven program that enables you to move around the Internet to various information sites. UCI's access menu can be started from your ea prompt by typing gopher.
1. an internet information retrieval mechanism, named after the Golden Gopher. See Archie, Veronica, Betty, Jughead. 2. a character in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. See Disney.
A widely used menu system to make materials available over the Internet.
Menu-driven application used to access Internet resources organized in hierarchical menus. Gopher is becoming obsolete as the Web gains popularity.
A menu-oriented system that gives access to documents, files, and other Internet services, regardless of where they are on the Internet. The software for Gopher was created and developed at the University of Minnesota to allow users to browse and retrieve documents in a campus environment.
An older method of accessing various resource types on the Internet using simple menus for navigation. Many college campuses, research institutions and government facilities continue to publish information to the public at gopher sites but this tool has been largely replaced by the World Wide Web. Hank was surprise to find that many Gopher sites he used to visit for researching libraries and academic publications were no longer in existence.
An older Internet service that provided organized access to databases on remote servers.
A protocol for disseminating information on the Internet using a system of menus.
A method of making menus of materials available on the Internet. A client/server type program requiring the user to have a Gopher Client program. Although there are still thousands of Gopher sites on the Internet, it is anticipated that they will be superceded by Hypertext (See Hypertext).
n. An Internet utility for finding textual information and presenting it to the user in the form of hierarchical menus, from which the user selects submenus or files that can be downloaded and displayed. One Gopher client may access all available Gopher servers, so the user accesses a common "Gopherspace." The name of the program is a three-way pun: it is designed to go for desired information; it tunnels through the Internet and digs the information up; and it was developed at the University of Minnesota (whose athletic teams are named the Golden Gophers). Gopher is being subsumed by the World Wide Web.
A system allowing users to search for files via menus or directory structures. Uses plain English names and is text based only.
A menu driven, information finding and retrieval tool providing access to databases, text files, and other resources on the Internet.
A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents, runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the net. Source: Dictionary.com
A protocol used to find information on the Internet. Search programs such as Veronica consult Gopher Servers containing hierarchically organized information stored in text files, which can be referenced by subject.
A hierarchical system for finding and retrieving information from the Internet or and intranet.
An Internet client/server that distributes an information delivery system around which a campus-wide information system can readily be constructed. Gopher facilities access to other Gopher and informational servers throughout the world.
A predecessor of the World Wide Web which has been eclipsed by the latter's arrival. It works by providing a menu of Hyperlinks that you can select from. This often leads to another menu which you select from until eventually you reach the document you were seeking. It is still used widely in academic world. See Also: WWW , Hypertext
An Internet browsing service in which information is organized by menus. It’s also a protocol for the menu-based system of accessing documents on the Internet, or any program that implements this protocol.
Not an acronym; named after the rodent. Gopher is a University of Minnesota distributed document search and retrieval system (virtually anyone with an Internet account can use Gopher).
a program maintained by the University of Minnesota using a menu-driven interface which compiles information gathered from the Internet and distills it into usable form.
A system using Gopher clients and servers to provide a menu system to navigate around the Internet.
A type of menu tree to "go for" items on the Internet, thus bypassing complicated addresses and commands.
An information retrieval system created by the University of Minnesota. In wide acceptance on the Internet, Gopher is one of the most useful resources available.
A computer program created by the University of Minnesota to access local information files or those found over the Internet. The program gives the appearance of a menu driven system. It's name is derived from the University of Minnesota's mascot the Golden Gophers as well as a play on the words to "go for". [| Up to G| Down to I | Bottom
A protocol for information delivery used in distributed information systems. Gopher clients give you access to this information. Gopher is a menu-based delivery system and does not have hypertext capabilities. Gopher has been largely supplanted by HTTP.
A text and information management application-level protocol that uses port 70/TCP. The firewall can pass Gopher through its standard proxy, as well as browser Gopher proxied through an HTTP connection on 80/TCP.
A system that lets you find information by using menus (lots of menus) To use Gopher, you usually telnet to a Gopher server and begin browsing the menus.
A menu driven information retrieval system used for searching the Internet across servers by making choices from a hierarchical system of menus.
Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is to function as an improved form of Anonymous FTP, with features similar to that of the World Wide Web.
Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.
Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.
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