Gopher is an Internet navigation tool developed at the University of Minnesota. It is a text based browser that starts off from the University of Minnesota and connects to other Gopher hosts located throughout the Internet. With Gopher, you can view a file, conduct a search, perform file transfers, and log on to different hosts.
Gopher is a client-server application.
Client software runs on UNIX hosts like GWIS2, others run on Macintoshes and PC's. There are several ways to launch Gopher from GWIS2. From the UNIX command prompt, you would just type gopher to start off at University of Minnesota. For example, if you wanted to access GWIS Gopher, you would type gopher gwis.circ.gwu.edu at the prompt. You can perform a Veronica search by selecting option 3 of this new menu.