> in 2023, Google renames their chatbot from Bard to [Gemini][gemini] thereby completely eclipsing the 4-year-old independent protocol by the same name; this is possibly coincidental, which would make it the only unintentional attack on the open web by Google in the last 15 or so years —and at this point even that is doubtful;

So the theory is that Google chose the name of its AI -- easily one of the hardest and most revenue-impacting naming decisions it's made in years -- in order to create a name collision with a protocol nobody's heard of that's trying to revive GOPHER?

This is so obviously false that you have to re-read the rest of the article with the knowledge that the author is misunderstanding what they're seeing.

Much of what the author describes is increasing security and not wanting to work with XML.