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GOPHER
A precursor to the world wide
web.
More Detailed Definition:
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.
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