Gopher is a menu-driven program for picking and choosing among the thousands of Internet resources.
Computers supporting gopher allow the user to easily view a hierarchical arrangement of menu choices and move up and down through the menus by selecting a specified menu option. The selection of any given menu item triggers another sub- menu of choices until, at some point, the user arrives at the desired resource. The server contains the information while the client is the user interface. You will need access to a gopher client to use gopher. A gopher client is a computer program that requests information from another computer program called a server.