>The misconception that the modern renaissance of Gopherspace is simply a reaction to "Web overload" is unfortunately.. It isn't a misconception. Gopher is sma

>The misconception that the modern renaissance of Gopherspace is simply a reaction to "Web overload" is unfortunately.. It isn't a misconception. Gopher is small underground counter-culture to the WWW. Lack of corporations, lack of ads, and lack of complex tracking is what keeps Gopher organic and therefore relevant. These other things, low computing power and fixed hierarchy, are nice-to-haves. It would collapse into darkness if Google were to begin indexing it and injecting ads onto it.