Gopher is distributed document delivery service available on the Internet.
Gopher servers provide information that you can access by using a gopher client. Gopher clients are available for all EECS and CS machines. Gopher client programs let you travel across the Internet to access documents, search full-text indexes and phonebooks, and otherwise navigate through the vast realms of information offered by many different computers running Gopher server software at sites throughout the world. There are gopher client programs available for many different types of computers, including UNIX workstations, Apple Macintoshes, and IBM PC's. There are several departments on campus which have set up Gopher servers.