On the other hand with html5 we will finally have a good reason to ditch the web altogether since it won't be good enough any more. I will look into gopher again...
As I don't need in-browser video/audio (never understood the html5 webm craze) I use a few scripts for direct playback on on tv and soundcard. There are dedicated downloaders like pyload if I need access to a sharehoster. Also reading mail with dillo in gmail's basic html works great although there haven't been any bugfixes from google for a long time. We'll soon be enough people so we don't loose.