alt Hacker NewsIts gonna fail. Early web won because of simple protocols (telnet, ftp, http, rfinger, IRC, smtp, zmodem) without encryption. You could literally telnet / nc into port and DO stuff. Encryption destroyed the simplicity of the internet...
My silly opinion. Encryption is literyally only thing blocking retro computers from being usable forever... (And js)
I would argue the reason the early web is a good memory now is that it was only used by a handful of nerds back then. All that encryption is there for a reason, and simplicity gives way to complexity because the internet of today has to serve orders of magnitude more people and use cases than it used to.