Ah, nothing like a child to make us feel foolish. Nothing like a child with Internet access to make us fell really foolish. Not that kind of gopher. He means the Internet gopher. I knew that.
Gopher is a method of accessing information on the Internet by means of hierarchical menus.
One must have the site of a server in mind, usually, to make any use of gopher. Exactly how you do this depends on your particular operating systems and software. OK, here's what the screen looks like after I type the line above. I can use my arrow keys to go up and down this list. When I find something I like, I hit return to enter it.