Fiber offers greater transmission capacity with less interference than metal cables. An Internet tool developed at the University of Minnesota that offers a simple method of perusing and retrieving information on the Internet. Gopher provides an easy, menu-based means of navigating and searching for useful information, without having to know exactly where the desired resources are stored. A user must have an account from an Internet service provider with direct access to the Internet. On the Internet, a host, or host computer, can serve as both way station and entrypoint for network users.
Hosts serve information to remote users, for example via World Wide Web or Gopher.
The World Wide Web is built around this concept. Documents are formatted with special tools that permit authors to link information to other documents of relevance elsewhere on the Internet. Using this information, graphical browsers like Mosaic or Netscape display images and text. A nongraphical browser called Lynx also enables access to Hypertext documents, with keystrokes instead of a mouse. Kilobits per second, e.g., 14.4 kbps.