What is gopher???Its history, uses, applications...How does it work???

Answer 1

Gopher is a distributed document search and retrieval network protocol designed for the Internet. Its goal is similar to that of the World Wide Web, and it has been almost completely displaced by the Web.

The Gopher 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 computer terminals, common in universities at the time of its creation. Some consider it to be the superior protocol for storing and searching large repositories of information.