[We] like to consider the hundreds of interconnected Gopher servers to be one large distributed entity; thus, we speak of "the Gopher", with its many small parts, spread throughout the Internet. The Gopher is always growing, always changing. It's everywhere, but you can't locate it; it's always there, but you can't see it. [...] The Gopher is the largest and most practical example of applied pantheism in the history of mankind. Harley Hahn & Rick Stout, "The Internet Complete Reference" (1994)