Once a connection is made, most hosts display some informative message indicating login procedures. This could mean that the name of the remote computer was spelled incorrectly, the remote computer is temporarily unavailable, or the computer is not on the Internet. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. One who runs errands, does odd jobs, fetches of delivers documents for office staff. Software following a simple protocol for tunneling through the internet.
Gopher is a menu system which provides a simple consistent method to navigate around the Internet.
Some menu items represent text files and some represent other menus. Each time a selection is made, Gopher does what is necessary to process the request, making its way from menu to menu. There are several thousand Gopher servers around the Internet each of which carries information of interest to local users. Since most of the Gophers are public, you can move from one to another to find what is of most interest to you. Finger is used to find public information about a user who is logged in either locally or on a host computer.