&gt; You going to build a bunch of services on Gopher protocol anytime soon? Require people pay large amounts of money upfront for stuff they usually get free? Expect no browser? Do a mobile solution that requires a specific device rather than smartphone?<p>Yes. This is exactly what I am talking about. While most people won&#x27;t bother to try, there will be some people who keep on trying. Most <i>experts</i> will say the same thing: &quot;This and that company already tried this and failed you idiot&quot;. But here&#x27;s why sometimes it works: Startups don&#x27;t succeed purely based on their absolute value. It&#x27;s all contextual and relative, which means the same model that didn&#x27;t work last year may work this year because of how the situation has changed. But nobody knows that until it actually happens. The reason why a lot of disruptive startups are built by inexperienced people just out of college instead of experienced people is because experienced people already know too much and have seen certain models don&#x27;t work and their thought process is just like you stated. Whereas younger people who have no idea will just try (and most of the times will fail) and sometimes it works because of the right context.<p>In fact your rhetorical questions I quoted above--which you probably meant cynically--are very interesting questions and I encourage that you seriously think them again. You seem to think they&#x27;re idiotic but I think they are brilliant questions. YES, it is possible that a new model can arise that will make people want to pay for stuff that they usually get for free. Yes, there can be something that completely rethinks how we consume information (not our contemporary browser). Yes, there can be an entirely new device that can replace a smartphone.