This is only good for someone that knows what they are looking for, if you know the name of the file it will return the site to find it and download it. FTP or file transfer protocol lets you down load a file off the web. We discussed some of the better ones out there. For instance change the file attributes on the fly. We didn't go very advance into this one because there weren't a lot of options.
Gopher is a program that is like a text version of the web.
There wasn't much difference since they are both text based. What it is is everything is a menu and you can expand that menu and do a search on something much like on the web. The only thing is that since gopher is entirely text based everything is much faster. Since a lot of sites have web sites only and don't update their gopher sites or even have one makes gopher a dying breed. We covered how to navigate in the gopher menus and how to perform searches but that is it.