Gopher system

The three basic Internet appHcations of remote login, electronic mad, and file transfer are also budding blocks of more sophisticated appHcations that offer increased functionaUty and ease of network use. Tools such as Gopher, Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS), and World Wide Web (WWW) go beyond the three basic Internet functions to make information on the network easier to locate and use. Detaded descriptions of these tools are avadable (10). This trend toward more powerful, user-friendly networked information resource access systems should continue as Internet grows and matures. 

Fax 612-625-6817, e-mail gopher boombox.micro.umn.edu Internet client/server for a distributed information delivery system. Client program for workstations is available by anonymous ftp from boombox.micro.umn.edu (132.84.132.2). UNIX workstations VAX, IBM, Macintosh, PCs. 

Gopher A document delivery system allowing the retrieval and display of text-based files. 

As mentioned above, the Wodd Wide Web is a hypertext-based database system of multimedia content. It can be used for building either local or global information systems. It is interactive, which means that the information flow can be bidirectional (from the database to the user and from the user to the database). It integrates all the other traditional information system technologies, such as ftp, gopher (a predecessor of the WWW in organizing and displaying files on dedicated servers), and news. 

Navon, D., Gopher, E. (1979). On the eeonomy of the human proeessing system. Psychological Review, 86, 214-225. 

The technique of placing a predator odor within the burrow systems appears to generate an avoidance response only if all resident gophers have been previously removed. The plugging of cans and traps (presumably an anti-predator strategy) with soil in Experiments A and B, respectively. 

Among other items is the EPA National Online Library System (found in the EPA Information Locators path) and Other Environmental Gophers (found in the Other Environmental Information path). 

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