The links are colored, often blue and underlined. Clicking on a link allows the user to move from one site to the next. Using Gopher is another way to access information using the Internet. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota. It was designed to make finding information on the Internet easier.
Gopher finds information by using menus.
The menus are organized in a hierarchical format. The user clicks the mouse to navigate the path of a desired subject. Each click of the mouse narrows the search. There are more than a thousand Gopher servers linked to the Internet. File types that can be accessed using gopher are text, graphics, sound, video, animation, and indexes for refining searches.