The question raised be the GP is whether the amount of originality deserves a Turing Award, given the other things (TCP/IP is even missing from his list) that either make the WWW possible or are similar to it.
Nothing about it was original or invented.
The world benefits more from effectiveness than from originality. Building on existing work is a good thing.
Why not contribute to the conversation and tell us why what we're reading is incorrect?
He did: Gopher also does hyperlinking, and was a contemporary (1991 public releases)
The still-used command line browser Lynx was first made for Gopher in fact, before being adapted for HTTP, which it still does.
Gopher were not hypertext. It had hierarchical menus which were separate from the plain text files.