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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>gopher</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="google-juice.html" title="google juice"/><link rel="next" href="gopher-hole.html" title="gopher hole"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">gopher</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="google-juice.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gopher-hole.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="gopher"/><dt xmlns="" id="gopher"><b>gopher</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [obs.] A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and
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obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing
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interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents,
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runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the
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net.</p><p>Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed
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at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a
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sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang <span class="firstterm">gofer</span> (from “<span class="quote">go for</span>”, dialectal
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“<span class="quote">go fer</span>”), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally,
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observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through
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the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers.
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Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first
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and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to
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the project as it developed out of its concept stage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="google-juice.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gopher-hole.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">google juice </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gopher hole</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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