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Tunneling through Gopherspace can be a trying experience, but now users have a road map.
Gopher Jewels is a catalog of Gopher sites organized by category, a "subject tree" with more than 1,800 pointers to information on Internet Gopher servers. Gopher Jewels also includes two subscription list services, or List servers, that help users stay abreast of the latest developments in Gopherspace.
Gopher is a menu-driven client/server system for browsing the Internet. There are now some 7,000 Gopher servers worldwide, with information ranging from AIDS to zoology. Most Gopher servers include pointers to other servers, allowing users to hop from host to host around the world in multitiered quests for information.
"Gopher creates a seamless environment that is standardized, so you only have to know one set of commands to navigate anywhere," said David Riggins, creator of Gopher Jewels and associate director of the Office of Advanced Technology at the Texas Department of...