Gopher has virtually been wiped out now by the World Wide Web, which we will be studying next. Gopher pages can either be listings of documents and files, or they can be text files. Gopher pages were used widely by the academic community before the expansion of the World Wide Web as it was an easy way to access academic texts very quickly. Gopher has a search facility called Veronica (Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerised Archives) which can search through resources on different sites and find relevant material for queries. There are still some gopher sites around but most are not well maintained since the World Wide Web has far better facilities.
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