WAIS and Gopher share the World Wide Web's client – server architecture and a certain amount of its functionality.

A Web client program ( such as a web browser ) can access data from many different servers, such as Gopher, FTP, NNTP ( Usenet ) or HTTP.

Gopher was preferred by many network administrators for using fewer network resources than Web services.

The original Gopher system was released in late spring of 1991 by Mark McCahill, Farhad Anklesaria, Paul Lindner, Daniel Torrey, and Bob Alberti of the University of Minnesota.

By 1992, the standard method of locating someone's e-mail address was to find their organization's CCSO nameserver entry in Gopher, and query the nameserver.

The World Wide Web was in its infancy in 1991, and Gopher services quickly became established.

For instance, the Internet Gopher protocol was created at the Twin Cities campus.

The first widely used open protocol that included hyperlinks from any Internet site to any other Internet site was the Gopher protocol from 1991.

It was soon eclipsed by HTML after the 1993 release of the Mosaic browser ( which could handle Gopher links as well as HTML links ).

HTML's advantage was the ability to mix graphics, text, and hyperlinks, unlike Gopher, which just had menu-structured text and hyperlinks.

In response, Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl ( unaware that the Masked Offender was actually Tigger ) staged a hoax in which they made an inanimate monster from a sticky glue-like material.

The plan worked, revealing Tigger as the Masked Offender, but the fake monster ( which was on wheels ) turned on its makers, ultimately resulting in Pooh, Rabbit, Gopher, and Owl hanging by the glue from a rickety bridge.

According to the film's director, Wolfgang Reitherman, Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more " folksy, all-American, grass-roots image ".

Initially the settlement was known as Gopher Ridge by the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians.

At the turn of the century, the neighborhood was controlled by gangs, including the violent Gopher Gang led by the notorious Owney Madden.

There was some disagreement about whether all pages should be in HTML, plain text, or whether all formats should be allowed ( e. g., as with Gopher ).

The Gopher Stadium bill was passed by both houses on May 20, 2006, the day before the Twins Stadium bill passed.

It was on the night of the Stars ' final game at Joe Louis Arena versus the Detroit Red Wings that Shaver first shared the broadcast booth with his son, Wally, who is the current Gopher hockey radio announcer.

Former Gopher Rickey Foggie was the quarterback and he struggled adapting to the Arena Football League after many years in the Canadian Football League.

Jughead is officially an acronym for Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation And Display, though it was originally chosen to match that of the FTP search service known as Archie — Jughead Jones being the name of another character from the Archie Comics.

This was followed by " I Gopher You " in 1954, featuring the Gophers in their first cartoon without the dog, attempting to retrieve their vegetables from a food processing plant ; " Pests for Guests " in 1955, which has the gophers counter-antagonize the helpless Elmer Fudd when he buys a chest of drawers that they found appropriate for nut storage ; and " Lumber Jerks " later that year, where the Gophers visit a saw mill in an attempt to retrieve their stolen tree home.

When the book was published, it was common to wish to live in purportedly " wholesome " small towns like Gopher Prairie ; a notion denounced by Main Streets vicious realism and biting humor.

The gopher mascot is a tradition as old as the state which was tabbed the “ Gopher State ” in 1857 after a political cartoon ridiculing the US $ 5-million railroad loan which helped open up the West.

Minnesota was tabbed the “ Gopher State ” in 1857 after a satirizing cartoon, depicting nine Gophers with the heads of local politicians pulling a locomotive, was published.

* Gopher ( train ), a passenger train operated by the Great Northern Railway, USA

Although largely supplanted by the Web in the years following, the Gopher protocol is still in use by enthusiasts, and a small population of actively maintained servers remains.

Gopher remains in active use by its enthusiasts, and there have been attempts to revive the use of Gopher on modern platforms and mobile devices.

The buildings on each campus are connected by a series of underground tunnels and above-ground skyways called The Gopher Way.

* In the second episode of the first season of Futurama, " The Series Has Landed ", a Moon carnival ride named " The Goophy Gopher Revue " is said to have been sponsored / owned by " Monsanto ".

On Feb. 7, 1994, while coaching a game against Minnesota, Byrdsong abruptly left the game and joined the fans in the stands shaking hands, high-fiving the Minnesota Gopher mascot and taking an unticketed seat until removed by an usher.

Veronica is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Goofy Gopher ( voiced by Paul Winchell ) would pop out from a flower pot to deliver the occasional one-liner, joining Cuckoo, who popped out of the Cuckoo Clock, and Banana Vac ( an electric talking moose head ) as secondary characters.

** Voiced by Paul Winchell ( who also provided the voices of Goofy Gopher and Cuckoo ), and by Bill Farmer in the 2008 version

* Gopher ( voiced by Michael Gough )

The distance from the main campus, along with poor performance by the Gopher football team, caused interest to wane.

The Lynx also made some moves in the off-season by selecting Rebekkah Brunson in the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft, and trading their first overall pick of the 2010 WNBA Draft and Renee Montgomery to the Connecticut Sun for former Minnesota Gopher Lindsay Whalen and the second overall pick.

* Gopher Gang, early 20th-century New York

Strongly oriented towards a menu-document design, the Gopher protocol presented an attractive alternative to the World Wide Web in its early stages, but ultimately failed to achieve popularity.

The Gopher Gang was an early 20th century New York street gang known for its members including Goo Goo Knox, James " Biff " Ellison, and Owney Madden.

The Gopher Protocol of the early days of the World Wide Web partly derives its name from this meaning.

The first group of Podengo Medio fanciers met in the US in the early 90's via the early internet Gopher ( protocol ) system and rec. pets. dogs. breeds.