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5 <author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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11 <command>gopher</command> began as a distributed campus information service
12 at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information
13 on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para>
16 Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven
17 interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another
18 menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you
19 originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host).
20 Gopher can <quote>tunnel</quote> from one Gopher to another without the
21 user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps
22 the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the
23 <quote>illusion</quote> of a single, large set of interconnected menus.
27 Gopher permits the user to record an item's location in a
28 <quote>bookmark</quote> thereby allowing users to follow a
29 <quote>bookmark</quote> directly to a particular item without
30 searching the menu system. Gopher menus are not standardized, inasmuch as
31 each Gopher server is individually determined.
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