Gopher

Gopher??? What???

The system is designed, and the university of Minnesota in the school sports ground mouse "to" golden named. On time, even a few years earlier than the Internet. It only supports text, don't support image.

Gopher is Internet on a very famous information search system, it will be the file on the Internet into some organization index, and is very easy to users from the Internet will be a place to another place. Allows the user to use of the structure of the cascade menu files to find and retrieve information, it has the world's largest and most magical cataloguing.

Gopher customer programs and Gopher server connection, and can use a menu structure shows other menu, document or file, and index. At the same time, we can Telnet through remote access other applications. Gopher agreement makes all the Gopher customers on Internet program, and on the Internet to all has the "register" Gopher server dialogue.

Gopher is Internet tools of one of the most exciting development, it makes new users do not have to be a technical experts, can quickly find Internet fans shout for many of the excellent resources.

usage

You can use in the text box after Netscape in gopher://Url input. For example, type in gopher://go... Gopher server.

Gopher menu options, click links by some represent a link can select that option. If this option guide another menu, then it will be displayed in the window. If it leads to a certain type of the file, the file will be a standard way to is transmitted. And if the Netscape can show and play it, can show the complete information.

Because of the rapid development, now the characteristics of the Gopher is very similar to the information transmission system, it can be used to spread any information, and of course, can also be used as a commercial customer service system, etc.