Actually, the article very accurately describes exactly how the University of Minnesota works with surprisingly vivid realism. It's likely that the department

Actually, the article very accurately describes exactly how the University of Minnesota works with surprisingly vivid realism. It's likely that the department was receiving significant funding from companies asking it to do mainframe research of some kind. Working on what were considered "toys," at the time probably would have looked extremely bad. Now does this mean that Gopher would have, "won out," over the WWW? No. But the description holds.