It's easy to think of the internet as just world wide web pages. You can then save this file if you want to, dissect it, modify it, change the contents to your own information with the original layout, and save it as a new file. Gopher Before graphical interfaces like Netscape, all the information on the web was in text format, and was shared between computers using a protocol called Gopher. It was originally developed at the University of Minnesota as a way for each campus and organization to share information over the university's computer network.
Gopher is a menu-driven system.
Gopher servers arrange their contents in hierarchical menus in plain language. You explore a Gopher server by selecting menu items which in turn can lead to other menus, files, images, sounds, search tools, ftp sites, or telnet resources. Each item on a Gopher menu is actually a set of instructions that tells the Gopher server what to do when someone selects them. You can connect to a Gopher site using Netscape by clicking on a hypertext link to a Gopher site, or by typing the gopher URL in the Location line. If you use Gopher, you'll end up seeing references to Archie, Jughead, and Veronica.