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<article lang="&language;" id="gopher">
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<title>gopher</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS -->
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</authorgroup>
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</articleinfo>
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<para>
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<command>gopher</command> began as a distributed campus information service
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at the University of Minnesota. Gopher allows the user to access information
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on Gopher servers running on Internet hosts.</para>
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<para>
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Gopher is an Internet information browsing service that uses a menu-driven
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interface. Users select information from menus, which may return another
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menu or display a text file. An item may reside on a Gopher server you
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originally queried, or it may be on another Gopher server (or another host).
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Gopher can <quote>tunnel</quote> from one Gopher to another without the
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user knowing that the server and/or host machine have changed. Gopher keeps
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the exact location of computers hidden from the user, providing the
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<quote>illusion</quote> of a single, large set of interconnected menus.
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</para>
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<para>
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Gopher permits the user to record an item's location in a
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<quote>bookmark</quote> thereby allowing users to follow a
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<quote>bookmark</quote> directly to a particular item without
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searching the menu system. Gopher menus are not standardized, inasmuch as
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each Gopher server is individually determined.
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</para>
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<para>
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Source:
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<ulink
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url="http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm"> http://tlc.nlm.nih.gov/resources/tutorials/internetdistlrn/gophrdef.htm</ulink>
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</para>
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</article>
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