I hate WYSIWYG (although I am not trying to prohibit anyone from writing/using them if they want to, only to say that you should not be forced to use WYSIWYG),

I hate WYSIWYG (although I am not trying to prohibit anyone from writing/using them if they want to, only to say that you should not be forced to use WYSIWYG), but certainly for a lot of stuff, static web pages (especially if do not require script and a lot of other external resources) would be helpful, and sometimes gopher would do better, too. (Use of other protocols is also sometimes helpful for non-static stuff too, such as telnet/SSH for interactive sessions, or remote virtual table protocol (or maybe a better protocol and implementation can be made up), for remote database queries.)