By now even casual Internet watchers have noticed that the Internet Gopher, like Elvis, is showing up everywhere. And each individual gopher can connect a user to hundreds of others around the Internet, with new ones appearing every day.
Gopher is a runaway success because it's simple.
Gone in large part is the daunting, mysterious alphabet soup of Internet addresses, remote logins, and arcane commands. And would-be gopher creators discover that it's almost as easy to build a gopher as it is to use one. But success has brought its own problems. Now, for many researchers, separating particular grains of wheat from barnfuls of chaff has become a frustrating exercise. Library Gopher to the rescue Enter the Library Gopher.