GOPHER:secret revealed

We technical people come across a sweet and short word that we use frequently either troubleshooting network connectivity or just adding to email asking someone to reply.

Guess what?? Its "PING". Ask techie the fullform of PING and he/she replies-"Packet INternet Gopher". We all know the meaning of words Packet and Internet but what is Gopher? Hmm..may be few knows its meaning and history behind it. Lemme share the interesting fact and meaning behind the word Gopher. Here we go:

Gopher system(or protocol) is Application layer protocol for searching,retrieving and displaying docs over the Internet. It was released on 1991 by McCahill,Torey and Linder of University of Minnesota. It is named after school's mascot and also as in an assistant who's sent to "GO FOR" things.

Ping command where g stands for GOPHER