Mosaic and the Gopher Protocol
The Gopher protocol is a simple Internet protocol that allows the transfer of
menus or text files. Mosaic automatically converts Gopher menus into
hypertext documents.
See, for example, The central Gopher
server at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Here is more
information on Gopher and the World Wide Web.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
alanb@ncsa.uiuc.edu