There are gopher browsers with graphical interface, but Netscape does the job as well. Note that a folder icon denotes a directory and a magnifying glass icon denotes a search entry. Here you can see a wider variety of entry type icons. Note the text icon, the movie icon, and the picture icon. You may wonder why there are two seperate databases on the internet, the World Wide Web and gopher.
Gopher is the earlier incarnation of a distributed database, and is on the decline.
Development for gopher has nearly come to a standstill, but there are still many people who prefer to provide information via gopher. 17-00 Bookmarks are a convenient way to keep track of your favorite gopher site. Instead of working your way through the heirarchy each time you want to find a page, you can save a bookmark to any spot within the gopher directory tree. A menu of the sites you have saved and you can cursor down to the site you want and select it with the enter key. And here is the contents of the page for which we had saved a pointer.