Gopher was created in 1991 at the University of Minnesota to help people find answers to computer-related questions. It provided an alternative to the early World Wide Web by allowing users to search and retrieve documents over the internet through a hierarchical system of directories and links. Gopher pages consisted only of lists of links between documents on the same or different servers, without hypertext capabilities. The name "Gopher" refers to the project of tunneling through the internet to find information, as well as the mascot of the University where it was created.

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2. GOPHERGOPHER
Gopher is a TCP/IP application layer protocol
designed for distributing, searching and retrieving
documents over the internet.
It presented an alternative to the world wide web
in its early stages.
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3. Where did gopher come from ?
"Born" in April 1991, gopher began as a
project at the Microcomputer,
Workstation, and Networks Center at
the University of Minnesota to help
people on campus get answers to
computer-related questions. At the time,
the computer center staff had
accumulated answers to thousands of
questions regarding computers and
software.

4. Why It is called Gopher?
The name "Gopher" is appropriate for three
reasons:
1.Just as a real gopher successfully navigates beneath
the prairie, the Internet Gopher tunnels through the
invisible paths of the Internet to help you find the
information you want.
2. The name refers to someone who fetches things or
provides service for other people.
3s. The Golden Gopher is the mascot of the University
of Minnesota.

5. A gopher client sends request across the internet
to a gopher server.
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6. Figure- 14
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7. Gopher pages are just lists of links either to other
pages on same site or pages on other site.
Unlike the world wide web there is no hypertext ,
just the links.
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8. Figure- 15
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9. o The gopher distributed database is essentially a
hierarchical structure of directories.
o Some entries point to other directories, some
points to documents.
o Documents can be text, images or programs
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10. GOPHER SEARCHERSGOPHER SEARCHERS
Two types of search engine are available in gopher-
o Veronica
o Jug head
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