I feel like gopher, the once alternative to the World Wide Web, before it became overwhelmingly less used, was really technologically superior. Its simplicity a

I feel like gopher, the once alternative to the World Wide Web, before it became overwhelmingly less used, was really technologically superior. Its simplicity and structure would have been difficult to coerce into the ugly monolith that web has become (in my opinion), and would have promoted proper modularity, which is how I would generalize "semantic graph" you mentioned.