The protocol can be found at Gopher (protocol) Gophers are small, burrowing rodents.

He led the development of the Gopher protocol, the effective predecessor of the World Wide Web.

Jughead - an alternative search engine system for the Gopher protocol.

In the May 1993 edition, the World Wide Web was described in terms of Gopher protocol:

Meanwhile, IE6 dropped support for XBM image files, and in 2002, the Gopher protocol was disabled.

The Gopher protocol was first described in RFC 1436.

Because of the simplicity of the Gopher protocol, tools such as netcat make it possible to download Gopher content easily from the command line:

Jughead is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol.

In 2002, the Gopher protocol was disabled and support for it was dropped in Internet Explorer 7.

An unusual service is the Gopher protocol, a hypertext document retrieval protocol which pre-dated the World Wide Web and was popular in the early 1990s.