> If anything, in the early days gopher was more convenient for multimedia than the web.
This is only true for a very small subset of 'convenient'.
This is the same sense in which 'apt-get' is a convenient way to get software. It's the same sense in which LaTeX is a convenient way to write an article for social sciences. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type :wq or ^x^w^x^c to save and quit your document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to use svn to collaborate with others on a text document. It's the same sense in which it is convenient to type "./configure" and then "make home" and then "make install" in order to install a binary executable. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to distribute source code without the required dependencies so that anyone who downloads it has to locate, build and install nine different packages just to find out that there's a fatal bug in the source code which prevents compilation. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to leave out documentation because there's comments in the source code. It's the same sense in which it's convenient to use the 'move' command for renaming files.