Gopher
Named after a college mascot -- and for its ability to 'go for' information, Gopher is a text-based information retrieval system for the Internet. Equipped with a Gopher client, you can use Gopher servers to search databases. Web browsers now have these capabilities and so are superseding Gopher for document retrieval. One advantage of searching with Gopher is that you can read stuff directly from the servers, which means no need to copy or save the files to your system first. (Also see Browser)