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I take a little explanation from wikipedia pages, the Gopher protocol / ɡoʊfər / is a TCP / IP Application layer protocol Designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. Towards a strongly oriented menu-document design, the Gopher protocol was a predecessor of (and later, an alternative to) the World Wide Web.The protocol offers Some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. Its text menu interface is well-suited to computing environments That Rely Heavily on remote text-oriented computer terminals, the which were the resource persons still common at the time of its creation in 1991, and the simplicity of its protocol facilitated a wide variety of client implementations.Although largely supplanted by the Web in the years following, the Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and a small population of actively-maintained servers Remains.

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