This part of the sites contains articles I have written or selected about my two major interests, the Internet and Food. Alive by Carl Winter. At that time the best known search engine for the Internet, as opposed to the rapidly growing WWW, was the mascot of Minnesota, the Gopher. It was inevitable that I became the Internet Gopher. When I was looking for an image for my new identity I found it hard to find what I wanted.
Gophers are secretive and tend to live in the dark, a bit like the Internet.
The advent of the WWW has brought light, sound, and movement, and I happened to see the BBC documentary about the life of a pack of meerkats. They also tunnel, but they live in more of a caring community and network together. Far better suited to searching the new high speed, graphic environment of the web. So now you know why the Internet gopher looks more like a meerkat. Full of surprises.