It enables you to easily retrieve all sorts of information, and to connect to many other services. In just three years, gopher has sprung up from one installation on the University of Minnesota campus to nearly three thousand around the world. One key to gopher's success has been that it is not overly complicated. There is a wealth of information available by gopher, including virtually all of the resources of the Internet. You change effortlessly from one computer to the next, and scarcely know it, as the menu interface remains the same.
Gopher is the most popular interface to the Internet, and it supports the latest Internet features.
Gopher is good for those times when you have only a vague idea of what you are searching for, as well as for retrieving information when you know what you want. How to use gopher to connect with some representative gopher sites. How to query gopherspace with the powerful Veronica program. How to use gopher's bookmark facility to create your own customized online service. The intimate relationship between gopher and other key Internet retrieval tools, such as FTP, WAIS, and WWW while learning something about them in the process.