I had totally forgotten about WAIS, a pre-web information service architecture that was, like all other such schemes, swallowed whole by HTTP/HTML. It even had

I had totally forgotten about WAIS, a pre-web information service architecture that was, like all other such schemes, swallowed whole by HTTP/HTML. It even had a URL scheme which I’m pretty sure I resolved a few times via Lynx. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server