With the advent to the World Wide Web, gopher sites can now not only be viewed through gopher software but also through WWW browsers like Netscape or Lynx. Internet is the name given to the complex world wide network of computers. Hierarchy is a system in which items are ranked above or below each other. For example the President of the United States is higher up in the hierarchy than the Vice President. Hierarchies provide ways of organizing and thinking about information in a systemic structure.
Indexing is the process that makes it easier to retrieve information from a database.
Computer indexes act as pointers to information just like an index does in a book. The same is true for computer indexing. Like the index in an encyclopedia, computer indexes or indexing saves lots of time. Listservs are an email communication tool that allows you to read email from a group of people. People with common interests join listservs to share information.