Telnet Telnet lets you log on and use a computer at another location on the Internet. You can then use that remote computer system and its software as if you were sitting there at its keyboard. You can even access other on-line services without incurring additional long distance charges. In many cases, the log-in name will be the name of a service or program such as WAIS or gopher. It combines many of the Internet tools to search, locate, and retrieve documents and files worldwide.
Gopher sites provide links to other gopher sites as well.
There's currently about 4,000 resource locations worldwide. To use all the features of gopher, you should be running gopher software on your computer with a SLIP connection. Mac users can use a shareware program called Turbogopher. However, a number of computer systems allow you to telnet to them to use their gopher program. If you don't have a SLIP account or the ability to use gopher software with a dial-up connection, you can access one of these two sites.