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Gopher (protocol)

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Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval protocol designed for the Internet. It was originally developed at the University of Minnesota, whose mascot is the Golden Gophers.

Gopher's original design goal for sharing documents was similar in scope to the World Wide Web, and as such has been almost completely displaced by it. The Gopher protocol offered some features not natively supported by the anarchic Web, imposing a much stronger hierarchy on information stored in it.

Gopher support was removed from Internet Explorer in June, 2002. Mozilla retains support for the protocol. As of 2002, there are still a few gopher servers present on the net, and a few are being maintained by enthusiasts of the protocol.


Related RFCs
RFC1436 - Description of the Gopher protocol.

See also History of the Internet.

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