Like your address at home, people need to know your street address, city, state, and zip code to send you something in the mail. IRC allows people from all over the world to connect to special computers on the Internet that are called IRC servers. These servers manage all of the conversations that the thousands of people are having. There are many computer files available for download on the Internet. These files range from computer programs to text documents.
Gopher is a service that organizes information into menus.
Gopher is a global information delivery service that is distributed across the Internet. Every item on every gopher in the world is accessible to you. Most of our customers use the WWW in place of gopher. There are some sites that contain information that you need that are only available through gopher. If that is the case, you have gopher services available to you.