Gopher & Jughead


Gopher

Use

Text based protocol for accessing resources. Gopher has largly been replaced by the World Wide Web, which supports multimedia and is more interactive. Nevertheless, there are still many sites that rely on gopher.

Protocol

gopher (?)

URL

gopher://computer/directory/file

Example: gopher://lupine.mbl.edu/stuff.txt

WWW browsers support gopher references.

Clients

See Shroud's CWSApps List.

Jughead

Use

Similar to Archie, except jughead searches gopher sites on the Internet.

Clients

See Shroud's CWSApps List?