Gopher
Sign in to saveAlso known as Internet Gopher, the Internet Gopher, Gofer, Internet Gofer, the Internet Gofer, Gopher (protocol)
TCP/IP application layer protocol
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 307 inbound references to Gopher, and connects out to World Wide Web, Internet Explorer and HTTP.
It sits within the topics Gopher (protocol), History of the Internet and Internet Standards.
Vinony links it to 36 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Gopher t-shirt.jpg
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- port
- 70
- name in kana
- ゴーファー
- described at URL
- archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/3/resources/307
- publication date
- 1991-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Gopher (/ˈɡoʊfər/ ) is a communication protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The Gopher ecosystem is often regarded as the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.
Usage
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gopher” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.