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Gopher

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000489

An early distributed document search and retrieval protocol that predated the World Wide Web, designed for organizing and presenting information in a hierarchical menu structure. Users navigated through menus to access documents, files, and other resources. Gopher's usage significantly declined with the rise of the more flexible and graphical World Wide Web.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000489
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectInternet
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "An early distributed document search and retrieval protocol that predated the World Wide Web, designed for organizing and presenting information in a hierarchical menu structure. Users navigated through menus to access documents, files, and other resources. Gopher's usage significantly declined with the rise of the more flexible and graphical World Wide Web.",
  "subject": "Internet",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/gopher/"
}

Record 537 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.