We still do. Documents web works fine without javascript. There are a lot of browsers - NetSurf, Dillo, console browsers, discontinued open source DOS browsers

We still do. Documents web works fine without javascript. There are a lot of browsers - NetSurf, Dillo, console browsers, discontinued open source DOS browsers [3], ed browser [4]. Monoculture stems from the convenience of having both document browser and application platform in one application. > by ViolaWWW, a graphical browser originally written by Pei-Yuan Wei in just four days. The simplest (non graphical) browser I can write in just a few minutes $ gem install sanitize $ curl -s example.com | ruby -rsanitize -ne 'puts Sanitize.clean($_)' Complexity grows from here - collect links to make it interactive, graphical text, images, tables, forms. Add constraints solver, data extraction tools, query RDF, etc. [1] https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ [2] https://www.dillo.org/ https://www.dillo.org/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne_(web_browser) [4] https://edbrowse.org/ https://edbrowse.org/