The Gopher protocol is a communications protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven, and presented an alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately fell into disfavor, yielding to the HTTP.[1]
The Gopher protocol was first described in RFC 1436.
Providers on tildeverse
Gopher clients
- bombadillo
- elpher (emacs client)
- lynx