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reminds me of another potentially critical mistake, https://mncomputinghistory.com/gopher-protocol/

'According to Alberti, licensing “socially killed gopher.” Second, changes to internet hardware gradually made Gopher less appealing. As put by McCahill, Gopher was designed within “the limits of what the technology (at the time) could do.” It was deliberately text rich because images were slow to load on the comparatively slow modems of the early 1990s. The decision to prioritize text made Gopher relatively fast while the more image-oriented World Wide Web languished in slow speeds (the “World Wide Wait”). However, by 1994 improvements in modem technology had turned this asset into a liability.'