Transcription: Well, FTP is really great because of all the information you can get, but it's not very user-friendly, dealing with only file names. Let's look at another way to retrieve information from the net that's much easier to use. Gopher. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota. By sheer coincidence, their mascot happens to be the golden gophers. Gopher is similar to FTP in function. You connect to a gopher site, then search the site for interesting things to either read or download. However, it's much easier to use. You deal with topics instead of file names, and you can easily peruse amo ...