I think it wasn't just about mindshare. It's easy enough to emulate gopher with a website: it's just a list of links: <ol> and <a> to the rescue. I still remem

I think it wasn't just about mindshare. It's easy enough to emulate gopher with a website: it's just a list of links: <ol> and <a> to the rescue. I still remember the lab where someone first showed me Mosaic. I was familiar with the Internet: FTP, Usenet, xtank, archie. I said, 'what's that?' He said, 'it's the World Wide Web!' I asked, 'what's that?' and he replied, 'it's like the Internet, but even bigger!' That was all it took.