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- Tunneling through Gopherspace
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- Gopher was the first popular Internet information browser.
- When you select gopher, you're presented with a menu of options. You
- can choose an option via the arrow keys, or by just typing the number.
- If an option ends in "/", it's another menu. You can keep following
- these menus, conceiveably forever, and just explore. By moving from
- menu to menu, you're often seamlessly moving from computer to compuer,
- literally all over the world. At any time, you can press the left
- arrow to go back to wherever you came from.
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- If you find a page in gopherspace you find particularly
- intriguing, you can press "a", to add it to your bookmark file. This
- will be permanently saved, so that when you come back another day, you
- can just press "v" to view bookmarks, and jump right to your favorite
- spot.
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- One option you might run across frequently is "Veronica".
- Veroinica is a search engine. You tell veronica what you want to look
- for, and she runs off and checks every cubbyhole in gopherspace, and
- brings back a menu of places where you can find what you're looking
- for. Searches sometimes time out because too many people are using
- the search engine, so please be paitent, or select a different
- Veronica server.
-
- If you like Gopher, you might also want to give the World Wide
- Web (Lynx) a try.
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- **Note** You MUST be using a VT100 terminal emulation to use
- Gopher. In fact, we recommend that you use a VT100 emulation whenever
- you call this system. If you find that the arrow keys on your
- computer do not do what they should, there is a good chance that your
- VT100 emulation does not handle the arrow keys correctly. If this is
- the case, feel free to send mail to help, and we will do what we can
- to help you get things working properly
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