The program gives the appearance of a menu driven system. The Internet Gopher protocol is designed primarily to act as a distributed document delivery system. While documents reside on many servers, Gopher client software presents users with a hierarchy of items and directories much like a file system familiar to users. Gopher application software is made up of two separate programs, the host and the client. The client application allows you to transfer data to and from the host application.
Gopher is found to be an incredible tool for information storage and retrieval purposes.
Most information available through Gopher is in the form of plain text files. You can print or copy these files readable in any word processor format. It is a vast collection of interconnected documents, spanning the world. Information providers set up their own hypermedia servers which web browsers can read and fetch documents from. Thus, WWW is the main repository of information on the Internet.