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TL;DR Hypertext links and graphics.

• mobilemidget 6y ago
  you say graphics, I read 'porn' ... never used gopher, did get an application/icon when installing internet software for one of the first ISPs I used, but I guess little adult content to be found on gopher?
  • squiggleblaz 6y ago
    Cynical. Generally speaking, articles with images and color are more interesting to random browsers. Even variable width fonts are more interesting than fixed width fonts. Given a HTML page using the default serif font that shows a picture of you and a cat and talks a little about your research, or a plain text file using the default fixed width font that talks a little about your research and says "in the menu below, clyde.jpg is a photo of my cat", then most people are going to prefer the first option.