Word: gophering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many local networks do offer limited resources to users on the Internet at large. Harvard students can access host computers at Stanford and download programs from their public software libraries. Likewise, anyone on the Internet can use "gopher" to peruse Harvard's course catalogs...
...recent column on HOLLIS Plus: Thanks to several members of the University Library staff for pointing out that telnet, the software used to access many of HOLLIS Plus features, automatically quits when you press Control-X. Thus, if you are lost inside HOLLIS Plus and cannot use gopher menus (which include navigation commands at the bottom of the screen) to find your way home, hitting Control-X should bring you back to a familiar gopher menu...
Perhaps the most useful feature of HOLLIS Plus is the inclusion of more research databases into the menu system. Taking advantage of gopher technology to its fullest, Harvard's card catalog now includes most of the obscure databases that were previously unavailable from standard HOLLIS terminals...
HOLLIS Plus also includes gateways to other institutional systems such as the Library of Congress gopher and ORBIS, the library tool used by students at a curtain college where football team we will destroy this coming weekend. (What kind of name is ORBIS, anyway...
...weekend getaway to Minneapolis began well enough. Harvard's opening round match-up was with a Golden Gopher team that was a bit tarnished...