Gopher

• created at the University of Minnesota as their CWIS
• structure of text-based menus and documents
• inherently character-based
• can span multiple servers
• can use desktop or host-based clients
• can support download of non-text file types
• strengths: supports text documents which are easy to create
• weaknesses: supports text documents which are easy to create
• better than ftp for publication, weak for collaboration