I was going to comment that they would probably enjoy learning about Gopher, the competitor to http, which is a simple enough protocol to browse without a clien

I was going to comment that they would probably enjoy learning about Gopher, the competitor to http, which is a simple enough protocol to browse without a client, but they beat me to it when they brought up Gemini at the end of the article. Gemini they describe as similar to Gopher but with Markdown, then berate it for requiring TLS. Perhaps they can fork it.