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Gopher client functionality was quickly duplicated by the early Mosaic web browser, which subsumed its protocol. Gopher has a more rigid structure than the free-form HyperText Markup Language of the Web. Every Gopher document has a defined format and type, and the typical user navigates through a single server-defined menu system to get to a ...
The pun was that a gopher not only is an animal, like the Muppets supposedly are, but is a fast animal, collecting food and delivering it somewhere else. At some point in the Muppets series, Kermit the Frog suggested that he himself was a gofer, but probably didn't last long in the job.
Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail.
It allows a text-based search, and retrieval following a search. Gopher provides a free text search mechanism, but principally uses menus. A menu is a list of titles, from which the user may pick one. While Gopher Space is a web containing many loops, the menu system gives the user the impression of a tree. [5] [6]
A mid-1994 guide lists Mosaic alongside the traditional, text-oriented information search tools of the time, Archie and Veronica, Gopher, and WAIS [33] but Mosaic quickly subsumed and displaced them all. Joseph Hardin, the director of the NCSA group within which Mosaic was developed, said downloads were up to 50,000 a month in mid-1994.
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HCI—Human—Computer Interaction; HD—High Density; HDD—Hard Disk Drive; HCL—Hardware Compatibility List; HD DVD—High Definition DVD; HDL—Hardware Description Language; HDMI—High-Definition Multimedia Interface; HECI—Host Embedded Controller Interface; HF—High Frequency; HFS—Hierarchical File System; HHD—Hybrid Hard Drive
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that "certain classes of people" in South Africa were being treated "very badly" and that he would cut ...