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Gopher
Gopher, documented in RFC 1436, is a non-hypertext precursor
to the World Wide Web based on navigating a series of menus.
Unlike anonymous
FTP, Gopher permits links to be constructed
from one gopher site to another. The advent of the Web, with
its graphical, hypertext presentation, has rendered Gopher
largely obsolete.
