We also learned about Usenet Newsgroups. These are very similar to listserv except there is no need to subscribe to Usenet group. Also you access the newsgroups with your browser and you don't get messages coming to your e-mail account. Like listserv, there are many different topics and it is easy to find one of your interest. Another aspect of the World Wide Web we learned was gopher.
Gopher allows users to view and download information from various databases.
The only real difference between gopher and the World Wide Web is that gopher does not support graphics. You can still access good information using gopher, even without the fancy pictures. This allows for the transfer of files between computers on the Internet. It is not a very practical method of accessing information. It can be very efficient only if you know both the name of the file you want and on what computer server it is stored.