Gopher & Gopherspace --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gopher" - in this case - is an information service, network protocol, and distributed document delivery system which uses a hierarchical file structure that transcends system architectures to deliver files and documents. A "network protocol" is a set of instructions by which one computer connects to other computers on a network. The computer in which a Gopher resides does so with other networked computers so the Gopher can deliver documents to them. Gopher is also an online "space" that is free of advertising and commercialism. Because it doesn't use "cookies," display images, support Flash, Java or Java-script, Gopher may be the last commercial-free space on the Internet. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created and Updated with the Vim Text Editor www.vim.org