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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Web |released=1991 }} '''Gopher''' is a protocol created around the same time as the World Wide Web, but which initially was more popular due to its plai..."

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Created page with "{{FormatInfo |subcat=Web |released=1991 }} '''Gopher''' is a protocol created around the same time as the World Wide Web, but which initially was more popular due to its plai..."

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'''Gopher''' is a protocol created around the same time as the World Wide Web, but which initially was more popular due to its plain-text and menu interface being better suited to the low-capability, low-bandwidth systems of the time; however, as computers got more powerful in subsequent years, the Web rapidly exceeded its popularity due to its graphical and multimedia capabilities.

Gopher was created at the University of Minnesota and named after that university's mascot.

The "gopher:" [[URL]] scheme was created for the Web as a way to allow Gopher sites to be accessed through Web browsers, though many browsers lack the ability to handle this protocol.

== Links ==
* [[Wikipedia:Gopher (protocol)|Wikipedia article]]
* RFC 1436 – The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)
* RFC 1580 – Guide to Network Resource Tools
* RFC 1689 – Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
* RFC 1727 – A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service
* RFC 1738 – Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
* RFC 1808 – Relative Uniform Resource Locators
* RFC 2396 – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
* RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme

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 * [http://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror Archive.org Gopher mirror]
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 '''Gopher''' is a protocol created around the same time as the World Wide Web, but which initially was more popular due to its plain-text and menu interface being better suited to the low-capability, low-bandwidth systems of the time; however, as computers got more powerful in subsequent years, the Web rapidly exceeded its popularity due to its graphical and multimedia capabilities.
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 * [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ Overbite add-on for Firefox]
 * [http://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror Archive.org Gopher mirror]

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	* RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme		* RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme
	* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ Overbite add-on for Firefox]		* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ Overbite add-on for Firefox]
		+	* [http://archive.org/details/2007-gopher-mirror Archive.org Gopher mirror]

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	* RFC 2396 – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax		* RFC 2396 – Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
	* RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme		* RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme
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 * RFC 1689 – Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups
 * RFC 1727 – A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service
 * RFC 4266 – The gopher URI Scheme
 * [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ Overbite add-on for Firefox]