| Gopher
Named after a college mascot--and for its ability to "go for"
information--Gopher is a text-based information retrieval system for the
Internet. Equipped with a Gopher client, you can use Gopher servers to
search databases around the globe for keywords or subjects. Because Web
browsers include Gopher client capabilities, the Web is superseding Gopher
for document retrieval. One advantage of searching with Gopher is that you
can read stuff directly from the servers--no need to copy or save the
files to your system first. |