<article lang="&language;" id="gopher"> <title >gopher</title> <para > <command >gopher</command > began as a distributed campus information service at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para> <para > Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host). Gopher can <quote >tunnel</quote > from one Gopher to another without the user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the <quote >illusion</quote > of a single, large set of interconnected menus. </para> <para > </para> <para > Source: <ulink url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm" > http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm</ulink > </para> </article>