These are not yet available, however. Sites registered in countries other than the U.S. also have a country zone. Gopher, FTPs, Usegroups and IRCs. Gopher was the first tool that made the Internet understandable and searchable to non-geeks. It was designed in 1991 at the University of Minnesota.
Gopher displays several menu selections.
When you select one of the menu items, it scours the Internet and presents the selected item. But it's not the Web, remember. Whatever it displays is shown in textual format, no graphics, sound or animation. But everyone agrees its introduction was an important evolutionary event in the life of the Internet. Next to the Web, Gopher remains one of the most popular tools for finding anything on the Internet.