Actually, understanding what it means will also increase your ability to better surf the Web. This alerts your browser to identify the site as an ftp site that allows you to access and download files from an ftp server. Downloading has now become easier and ftp sites are becoming less common .
Gopher uses a menu-based system to tunnel through the Internet.
The World Wide Web has made Gopher virtually obsolete, but there are times where you will run into a Gopher. Here we have the actual name of the page. You may also come across .htm here too. As browser technology advances we'll eventually find ourselves never bothering with this sometimes awkward syntax. All rights reserved.