Addresses for the location of any type of Internet resource, whether a single file on an FTP site, an entire Gopher server, or an image on the Web. The collective term for newsgroups or discussion groups. There's a Usenet newsgroup for almost any topic you can imagine. A search tool that allows you to quickly scan Gopherspace for directories and files. A destructive program that travels from computer to computer on floppy disks, telecommunications systems, or networks.
Viruses tend to destroy files or even entire hard drives.
Wide Area Information Search. Another program for zeroing in on information hidden inside Gopherspace. You give a WAIS a search word and it scans the net looking for places where your search word is mentioned. They also allow you to make hypertext leaps to other Web sites. The most popular service on the Internet, the WWW has pictures and hypertext that allows you to jump from one site to another, all over the world.