Prior to the Web, Gopher was an initial attempt at navigating the Internet. Gopher arranged information on the Internet as a hierarchical listing of directories and files. The users jump from general directories at higher levels to more specific directories at lower levels until they find what they want.
Gopher allows the computer to jump from one computer to another.
With the introduction of the Web, users could travel the Internet to access text, visual images, video and audio presentations in a manner that was easy to navigate and included color. The organization of a page is much like any printed page in a book. A major innovation of the Web is the use of hypertext. Hypertext is the use of words and images as links or connecting points to different text, images, sounds, or videos on other computers throughout the world. The software used to access the Internet is commonly called a Web browser.