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gopher Last modified: Wednesday, February 19, 2003
A system that pre-dates the World Wide Web for organizing and displaying files on Internet servers. A Gopher server presents its contents as a hierarchically structured list of files. With the ascendance of the Web, many gopher databases were converted to Web sites which can be more easily accessed via Web search engines. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota and named after the school's mascot. Two systems, Veronica and Jughead, let you search global indices of resources stored in Gopher systems.
Yahoo!'s Gopher page Yahoo's directory of Gopher. RFC 1436 Request for Comments document for the Internet gopher protocol.	Related Categories Internet Protocols Search Engines Related Terms Archie Internet Jughead search engine Veronica World Wide Web