Gopher is a text, directory-based browser for a massive hierarchival text database.
Its very much like the lynx browser we discussed earlier, except that is browses a different database. A gopher client sends requests across the internet to a gopher server. 13-03 Gopher pages are just lists of links either to other pages on the same site or pages on other sites. The gopher distributed database is essentially a hierarchical structure of directorys. Some entries point to other directories, some point to documents.