Before the 'web arrived, Gopher sites were the greatest thing to hit the 'net since, well, the 'net itself. For the first time, information could be organized and accessed in a hierachical manner. Entire gopher sites could be set up as a series of menus branching down into lower layers, with the lowest layers containing files, images, text files, and similar data. With the arrival of search engines like Veronica and Jughead, the information a gopher site contained became much easier to find. Since the coming of the 'web, though, gopher sites have become yesterday's news. While still popular, gopher sites pale in comparison to web sites, especially due to the gopher's lack of integrating text, sound, images, and video in a graphically appealing layout. However, gopher sites remain popular today for their ability to house extremely large collections of information.