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- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 08:11:09 EDT
- Reply-To: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Sender: Let's Go Gopherin' <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- From: Jim Gerland - Network User Support <GERLAND@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
- Subject: #5 All the Gophers in the World
- To: Multiple recipients of list GOPHERN <GOPHERN@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
- Status: RO
-
- NAVIGATING THE INTERNET: LET'S GO GOPHERIN'
-
- Richard J. Smith and Jim Gerland
-
- ALL THE GOPHERS IN THE WORLD
-
-
- Let's get past the first door and enter into Gopherspace.
-
- (Unless you start at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, your
- travels will differ from my examples in this entanglement of Gophers
- pointing at each other. Yet most Gopher servers will get you to where I'm
- going--All the Gopher Servers in the World.)
-
- At my system prompt I type the word "gopher" and retrieve the
- following menu:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- Root gopher server: gopher.uiuc.edu
-
-
- -->1.Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gopher
- 2.Campus Announcements (last updated 8/18/93)/
- 3.What's New?(last update: 8/17/93)/
- 4.Information about Gopher/
- 5.Keyword Search of Gopher Menus <?>
- 6.Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Information/
- 7.Champaign-Urbana & Regional Information/
- 8.Computer Documentation, Software, and Information/
- 9.Libraries and Reference Information/
- 10. Newspapers, Newsletters, and Weather/
- 11. Other Gopher and Information Servers/
- 12. Phone Books (ph)/
- 13. Internet File Server (ftp) Sites/
- 14. SPECIAL: FLOOD RELIEF INFORMATION (ILLINOIS CES)/
- 15. IMPORTANT!NEW TERMINAL SERVER CHANGES GO INTO EFFECT AUGUST.
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/1
-
- ********
-
- Number eleven of the fifteen items titled "Other Gopher and
- Information Servers/" is the item I want, so I select 11 and
- retrieve the following menu:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
-
-
- Other Gopher and Information Servers
-
-
-
- --> 1. About Other Gopher and Information Servers.
- 2. The UofI Weather Machine/
- 3. Administrative Information Systems and Services (AISS)/
- 4. Agriculture, College of/
- 5. Computer Science Department/
- 6. Education, College of/
- 7. Electrical and Computer Engineering/
- 8. Engineering Placement Office/
- 9. Environmental Health and Safety, Division of/
- 10. National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/
- 11. Psychology Department/
- 12. Vocational & Technical Education/
- 13. University of Illinois at Chicago/
- 14. Online birding at the AVES archive (vitruvius.cecer.army.mil)/
- 15. Search titles in Gopherspace using Veronica/
- 16. Recommended Gopher Servers for Exploration/
- 17. All the Gopher Servers in the World/
- 18. USA/
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/2
-
- *******
-
- This menu contains 18 items. All are directories except the first item
- which is a text file. The text file explains that the first few items of
- this menu contains information from the University of Illinois, while the
- rest of the items are from outside the university.
-
- I'm interested in number 17 titled "All the Gopher Servers in the
- World." I select that number and retrieve this menu:
-
- ********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- All the Gopher Servers in the World
-
-
- --> 1. Search Gopherspace using Veronica/
- 2. ACADEME THIS WEEK (Chronicle of Higher Education)/
- 3. ACM SIGGRAPH/
- 4. ACTLab (UT Austin, RTF Dept)/
- 5. AREA Science Park, Trieste, (IT)/
- 6. Academic Position Network/
- 7. Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slovakia)/
- 8. Alamo Community College District/
- 9. Albert Einstein College of Medicine/
- 10. American Mathematical Society /
- 11. American Physiological Society/
- 12. Anesthesiology Gopher /
- 13. Appalachian State University (experimental gopher)/
- 14. Apple Computer Higher Education gopher server/
- 15. Arabidopsis Research Companion, Mass Gen Hospital/Harvard/
- 16. Arizona State University Gopher/
- 17. Armadillo, the Texas Studies Gopher/
- 18. AskERIC - (Educational Resources Information Center)/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 1/44
-
-
- ********
-
- Except for number one, this looks like an alphabetical list of other
- Gopher servers directories. At the bottom of the screen, we are told that
- this is the fist page of forty-four pages. If we page down, (Using the
- Page Down key or space bar depending on your terminal emulation. Use the
- ? at most screens for the Quick help menu.) a few screens we get the
- following information:
-
- ********
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- All the Gopher Servers in the World
-
- --> 19. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)/
- 20. Aston University, (UK)/
- 21. Auburn University test gopher/
- 22. Augusta College/
- 23. Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia/
- 24. Australian Defence Force Academy (Canberra, Australia)/
- 25. Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
- 26. Australian National Botanic Gardens/
- 27. Australian National University/
- 28. BIOSCI/bionet biology newsgroups server/
- 29. Ball State University (root) gopher server/
- 30. Bar-Ilan University Information System, Israel/
- 31. Base de Dados Tropical Campinas, Brasil/
- 32. Bates College/
- 33. Baylor College of Medicine/
- 34. Bedford Institute Of Oceanography (Canada)/
- 35. Ben Gurion University Gopher (Israel)/
- 36. Bilkent University, Ankara, (TR)/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu Page: 2/44
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- All the Gopher Servers in the World
-
-
-
- --> 37. Binghamton University Gopher Server/
- 38. BioInformatics gopher at ANU/
- 39. Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher/
- 40. Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (at Harvard)/
- 41. Bioinformatics (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)/
- 42. Bioinformatics Resource Gopher/
- 43. Bloomfield Hills School District Model High School/
- 44. Board of Governors Universities, IL USA/
- 45. Boston University/
- 46. Bowling Green State University/
- 47. Bradley University/
- 48. Brigham Young University/
- 49. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada/
- 50. Brookhaven National Laboratory Protein Data Bank/
- 51. Brown University/
- 52. Brussels University STC/
- 53. Bucknell University - Lewisburg PA/
- 54. Butler University Gopher/
-
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu
- Page: 3/44
-
- ********
-
- The variety of Gopher servers available in Gopherspace are
- exemplified in these three pages. First, Gopherspace is
- international in scope. Brussels, Israel, Canada, and Brazil are
- just a few represented in these first few pages.
-
- Generic universities' Gophers predominate, yet specialty
- Gophers are represented, such as bioinformatics, American
- Mathematical Society, Board of Governors Universities.
-
- Bloomfield Hills School District Model High School's Gopher gives
- an indication of how the Internet is expanding beyond the
- university confines.
-
- If you go back to the first screen of All the Gopher Servers in the
- World and arrow key up you get this screen:
-
- ********
-
- Internet Gopher Information Client v1.11
-
- All the Gopher Servers in the World
-
-
-
- 775. Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology/
- 776. World Health Organisation (WHO)/
- 777. World Health Organization (WHO)/
- 778. Yale University/
- 779. York University/
- 780. agora public gopher/
- 781. bioftp EMBnet, (CH)/
- --> 782. rec.aviation gopher/
-
- Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu
- Page: 44/44
-
- **********
-
-
- This is the end of the alphabetical listing of All the Gopher Servers in
- the World. (The last three servers are out of place since this sorted
- index puts lower case behind the upper case list.) At this time there are
- 782 Gopher servers available from the All the Gopher Servers in the World
- menu. More are being added every day.
-
- It would be worth your while if you are a serious user of the network,
- scholar, researcher, entrepreneur, or whatever to page through the
- forty-four pages of Gopher listings to get a feel for what is available.
- I'm sure you will run across some surprises that you will want to select
- and explore further.
-
- These are, however, Gopher directory items. That means any you select
- will retrieve a menu that may contain other Gopher directory items. So
- now we have a problem. Seven hundred and two Gopher items that may
- contain additional directories that may contain additional directories
- that may ....
-
- What is the solution? Enter Veronica. We'll talk about that
- later.
-
-
- Richard J. Smith
- smithr@clp2.clpgh.org
- The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
-
-
- Jim Gerland
- gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Academic Services, Computing and Information Technology
-
-