Gopher had links. At its core, gopher was links. It was a hierarchical menu system of proto-URLs (host port and path). The primary benefits of www over gopher

Gopher had links. At its core, gopher was links. It was a hierarchical menu system of proto-URLs (host port and path). The primary benefits of www over gopher at the time were that the web supported text input (you had to use wais just to search gopher and you couldn't build say, a forum) and html which allowed embedded images and formatting.