ALSO CALLED: Gopher Servers, Veronica, and Gopher Clients DEFINITION: Gopherspace is a term used to describe the aggregate of all the information on the thousands of Gopher servers in the world. This information consists of individual files (abstracts, full-length documents or papers, lists, and other file types) organized as a hierarchy of subject categories that can
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GOPHERS DEFINITION (continued): be limited to one server or span multiple Gopher servers. Gopher text files are plain files that lack the kinds of formatting control and font variation that HTML files have. One can think of gopherspace as that portion of cyberspace that is accessible through Gopher servers.
Users of most Web browsers will find that their Web browser also includes a Gopher client. This means that you can go directly to any Gopher server from your Web browser providing you know the server's address. Gophers definition sponsored by SearchSOA.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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