These searches do take time. The search for information about hemachromatosis took a couple of hours, and the search for the cast of Pride and Prejudice took at least three-quarters of an hour. The system is free, since I access it through my local library system. The Internet moves freely between the World Wide Web, which uses hypertext, and gopher, which does not. The hypertext that the World Wide Web utilizes is powerful - I can move to a different location just by clicking with the mouse on a highlighted word.
Some pages have dozens of hypertext links.
Gopher, however, is not to be ignored. Some of the best files are accessed with gopher. In CompuServe, I click on Get New Mail. I retrieve the file. I click on Save File.