Gopher's sense of function and how Gopher works

There are several kinds of Internet services that you can currently use, ranging from email (electronic mail), Mailing List, Telnet, File Transfer Protocol, Newsgroup, Internet Relay Chat, World Wide Web (WWW), Gopher, and many more.

The function of this Internet service, of course, allows you to access the Internet, ranging from personal life information, hobbies, personal development, business, economics, forums, and so on. This time will be discussed further on one of the existing Internet services, namely Gopher.

Gopher itself is a software application in which it contains menus regarding information retrieval systems. But unfortunately, nowadays it is very rare that people use gopher applications, maybe even almost nothing. But it doesn't hurt if you listen to the following Gopher's understanding.

Understanding Gopher

Ghoper is a software application which is composed of menus of information retrieval system. Sites that use Gopher services or protocols are actually menus that represent existing information and data.

Basically, the menu here is the table of contents to process and show certain information. This Gopher service uses FTP as a way in file Exchange as well as Telnet (Tele Networking) on certain server connections. Although the current gopher services are rarely used, there are still a few small populations that still become active servers.