It's also my question - and the answer is a good one: Gopher provides one structured menu question answer like method to interface to information. This is why I use org-mode for most of my documentation. The problem with using Gopher space is that most if not all information that I consume, hacker news, social media, wikipedia is available in gopher format. Some have implemented gopher versions of reddit and hn in the past, but these are gone.

In a way google serp, e-mail, twitter already use this simplified UI - now if only we could unify it somehow.

One way of doing this would be by using console browsers to interface the web, or set your browser to use 1 font and style and no images. One of these browsers, Elinks 0.12pre6 has gopher as compile time option as added benefit.

Aonther problem with Gopher is that it doesn't appear to support encryption and compression. I remember the pipe and slash symbols 'spinning' while waiting for a large plain text document to complete downloading in the old days. So the "resource lite" argument doesn't fly completely.

So perhaps the best option is to use simplified and structured gopher like menu-ing system using html, something like markdown did for html as is suggested... but why then not put Gopher to sleep for even and start a www-less project?

Just for the fun of it, you should indeed read this using gopher,

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/gopher/relevance.txt