Gopher is a text, directory-based browser for a massive hierarchival text database. Its very much like the lynx browser we discussed earlier, except that is browses a different database. A gopher client sends requests across the internet to a gopher server. 13-03 Gopher pages are just lists of links either to other pages on the same site or pages on other sites. The gopher distributed database is essentially a hierarchical structure of directorys.
Some entries point to other directories, some point to documents.
Documents can be text, images, or programs. Some gopher browsers will display images if you system is configured to do so. Here is a sample screen from the mother of all gopher sites in the gopher state. We then see the next menu and we select 9, North America. Next we select USA to get a list of states.