Why is distributed HTTP needed when you could just run a local (web)server that would act as a translator to the peer-based web which you could implement with o

Why is distributed HTTP needed when you could just run a local (web)server that would act as a translator to the peer-based web which you could implement with other protocols? That way, you can continue to use existing browsers. Now you'd just need to implement that server... Heck if you did it this way, you could just have remote servers actually pull content from the regular web and serve it up through the peer web. It could be similar to a proxy.