Gopher is an infoserver which can deliver text, graphics, audio, and multimedia to clients.
No graphic design means its the ideal navigable interface, a hypertext Eden. But once the Internet became commercialized, this ideal hypertext interface was forgotten, and the gopher dream was scrapped. I was using Gopher with my dad on my old 486. There was a wealth of information so overwhelming I didnt know what to do with it. As a young child, I was highly fascinated by Space, and I asked my dad to type in 'How to be and Astronaut' and I got an essay with that topic.