I grew up at the tail end of gopher, and kinda wish I saw it in its heyday. HTTP and HTML are so complicated. I still think it'd be nice if there were a text-fo

I grew up at the tail end of gopher, and kinda wish I saw it in its heyday. HTTP and HTML are so complicated. I still think it'd be nice if there were a text-focused alternative internet... even if not gopher, WAP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol) would've been nice, at least more so than AMP. I also miss XPath (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath). It's still around, but CSS selectors have taken over most everyday use cases. But for writing frontend tests or scrapers, XPath can still be very handy. I guess it's not really a "protocol", but IMO it was a good standard that saw too little real-world uptake.