The Internet Gopher is a distributed document delivery service. It allows users access to various types of information residing on multiple computers in a seamless fashion. In other words, users can access information from all over the world without having to know a specific machine name or how to communicate with it. This is accomplished by presenting the user a hierarchy of menus where each menu entry provides access to text files, directories, nameservers, sounds, other gophers, etc. Each of these can reside on any computer on the Internet.
Users can also ask index servers to return a list of all documents that contain one or more words.
Since an index server does full-text searches, every word in every document is a keyword. If you are having problems accessing something in Gopherspace, wait a little while and try to access it later. Veronica is a program that you access through Gopher. Jughead Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display. Jughead is a search routine that follows the same conventions as Veronica except it acts on a single gopher server.