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What is a Gopher?

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What is a Gopher?

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Gopher is a protocol that organizes information in hierarchies; it was state-of-the-art before the creation of the World Wide Web. Gopher is a text-only service developed by the University of Minnesota. A gopher site can also point you to a telnet resource, a searchable database or even WWW resources. You can check out the following gopher site using your Web browser. Gopher://gopher.tc.umn.