It would be cool to try something like this, but I also wonder if the web is "it". With all this talk about net neutrality, it sometimes gets lost that the cool thing was being able to invent a new service on a new port. Would the web have been here if the net port restricted like it does today in the days of gopher?

If you were going to do this.... I would probably go with something more persistent in a protocol (more X windows than http). Flip the axis (0,0 top left) and ... well a lot of things from display postscript ... might be fun,

> With all this talk about net neutrality, it sometimes gets lost that the cool thing was being able to invent a new service on a new port.

But we can do that just as easily today.

> Would the web have been here if the net port restricted like it does today in the days of gopher?

There are very little port restrictions. The only ones that I am aware of that are routinely enforced are http and mail servers running on end-user lines and mail server other than the ISP ones connected from those lines.

Anything else is fair game.

> f you were going to do this.... I would probably go with something more persistent in a protocol (more X windows than http). Flip the axis (0,0 top left) and ... well a lot of things from display postscript ... might be fun,

Display postscript is a very impressive language, it takes some getting used to though.

But it is a lot more flexible and orthogonal than HTML will every be.