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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...
Second, few tools share a common interface, and nearly all tools use arcane commands and sport non-intuitive names like "archie" (named after the comic book character) and "gopher" (named for the mascot of the Minnesota school at which it was created...
...masks the complexities of the underlying protocols, removing the need for users to know the difference between ftp, HTTP, gopher, and WAIS, for example," he says. "All the user has to know how to do is click...
...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...
...weekend getaway to Minneapolis began well enough. Harvard's opening round match-up was with a Golden Gopher team that was a bit tarnished...