When you log into a Gopher session, a menu appears on your screen. As you select menu items, you see succeeding menus, layer after layer, until you locate what you want. You might end up with text, that you can save as a permanent file on your computer or print or forward to someone via Internet E-mail. Or, Gopher might offer you a file that you can download to your PC or, on some Windows or Mac based systems, view in real time. Or, you might encounter a telnet session that will log you into a remote network somewhere.
Gopher is fast, easy to use, and comprehensive.
Also at stake is how our children will learn, rewriting our notions of books and libraries along the way. This is revolutionary, not evolutionary, technology. At the center of the Web is hypertext linking. Using a computer mouse, you select highlighted words and pictures on your screen. Once selected, you get a new screen full of words, pictures, full motion video presentations, or stereo sound from which to choose.