gopher & WWW

Harry Doss hdoss@vt.edu
Sun, 05 Feb 1995 19:25:36 +0500


Fred, I'll try and explain these terms.

"Gopher" is a format for storing and making available information on the
internet. It also refers to client software used to retrieve this
information. If you have full internet access, you should have been provided
with a gopher client (software.) I use a program called hgopher.

A World Wide Web browser is a program that can access gopher servers as well
as "Web sites." They also allow you to find anything on the internet if you
know it's unique address, called a URL for Uniform Resource Locator.
Netscape is one such program, available at ftp://ftp.mcom.com/netscape/.

Harry




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