What was the one.....Gopher,Groundhog or Prairie dog or something like that?
Gopher was the protocol, with the gopher servers themselves generally referred to as 'gopher sites'.
'Archie' was the first internet search protocol that I'm aware of. You could do an Archie search that would return results from gopherspace.
Archie was superceded by Jughead, and later Veronica searches. By that point gopherspace was being eclipsed by WWW servers. There are still gopher servers out there, but you have to know where to look for them. :-)