Gopher is a menu driven system.
It's still a part of the Internet, but is not used widely now. The ability to add images and sound using the WWW effectively dealt a death blow to wide spread use of Gopher. Gopher was essentially the easiest way to get around the Internet . However, navigating the maze of menus that was offered was both cumbersome and time consuming. This made it much easier to find needed information and eliminated the amount of time that was needed to find information.