For example you could use this to get an anti-virus or some other program, digital images, etc. There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name anonymous, thus these sites are called anonymous ftp servers. The term can also refer to a system capability that provides direct access to other remote networks or services. Gopher A menu-based system that allows a user to access information from a remote computer. Menu items point to a file or directory item, which may be located on the same computer or on a different one.
Gophers essentially point to other gophers on remote machines.
Through gopher, you can telnet to remote computers and perform searches on searchable databases. A system of marking up, or tagging, a document so it can be published on the World Wide Web. The client-server protocol upon which the World Wide Web is based. Rather, it is a collection of tens of thousands of networks, online services, and single-user components. Also, when not capitalized, any interconnected set of networks.