вести бессистемную разведку недр; хищнически разрабатывать недра
одна из групп новостей в Usenet, разработанная в 1991 г. в Университете штата Миннесота. (дословно gopher - "суслик" - шутливое прозвище жителей этого штата. По другой версии название происходит от go for it - ищи это.) Gopher-серверы содержат, кроме текстов, аудио и графику, которые можно не только пересылать, но и проигрывать (воспроизводить), т. е. они прямые предшественники WWW. В 1993 г. в мире было 1700 Gopher-серверо
1. имя существительное 1) а) [зоология] мешетчатая крыса, гофер б) [зоология] суслик Синоним(ы): ground squirrel в) [американский вариант английского языка] уроженец или житель штата Арканзас или Миннесота 2) а) [зоология] особый вид черепахи, Testudo carolina, ведущей ночной образ жизни; обитает на юге США б) [американский вариант английского языка] уроженец или житель штата Флорида 3) смотри значение goffer 2. глагол 1) рыть, копать Синоним(ы): burrow 2) [горное дело] производить бессистемные разведки 3) смотри значение goffer
I. noun Etymology: origin unknown 1. a burrowing land tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) of the southern United States; broadly any of several related land tortoises — called also gopher tortoise 2. a. any of a family (Geomyidae) of burrowing rodents of western North America, Central America, and the southern United States that are the size of a large rat and have large cheek pouches opening beside the mouth — called also pocket gopher b. any of several small ground squirrels (genus Spermophilus) of the prairie region of North America 3. gopher ball II. variant of gofer
A distributed document retrieval system which started as a Campus Wide Information System at the University of Minnesota, and which was popular in the early 1990s. Gopher is defined in RFC 1436. The protocol is like a primitive form of HTTP (which came later). Gopher lacks the MIME features of HTTP, but expressed the equivalent of a document's MIME type with a one-character code for the "Gopher object type". At time of writing (2001), all Web browers should be able to access gopher servers, although few gopher servers exist anymore. Tim Berners-Lee, in his book "Weaving The Web" (pp.72-73), related his opinion that it was not so much the protocol limitations of gopher that made people abandon it in favor of HTTP/HTML, but instead the legal missteps on the part of the university where it was developed: "It was just about this time, spring 1993, that the University of Minnesota decided that it would ask for a license fee from certain classes of users who wanted to use gopher. Since the gopher software being picked up so widely, the university was going to charge an annual fee. The browser, and the act of browsing, would be free, and the server software would remain free to nonprofit and educational institutions. But any other users, notably companies, would have to pay to use gopher server software. "This was an act of treason in the academic community and the Internet community. Even if the university never charged anyone a dime, the fact that the school had announced it was reserving the right to charge people for the use of the gopher protocols meant it had crossed the line. To use the technology was too risky. Industry dropped gopher like a hot potato."