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      Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Minnesota owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.

      There was some early work supporting things like forms and search on Gopher. But it was pretty much abandoned as soon as WWW started catching on.