alfi

In the beginning, there were separate internets. By Postel's law, it is hard to stop them converging into one, though [1] Your last question, though is more about "Are there alternate networked information systems than WWW"? Gopher is still active [2]. Gemini is a proposed modern incarnation of Gopher [3]. There is also Alfi [4]. There seem to be run by hobyists, though. If there are any other comparable platforms, I'd like to know too. [1] https://apenwarr.ca/log/20200708 [2] https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/gopherspace.html [3] https://toffelblog.xyz/blog/gemini-overview/ [4] https://github.com/jezze/alfi

I am trying to reinvent the web. Replacing HTML/JS/CSS with a language called ALFI. It is stupidly simple in its design but still very powerful. Similarly to HTML you use it to create widgets, place them, and define their behavior. It is humanly readable like HTML but line-based instead of markup-based. Instead of nesting it uses references. This allows it to be streamed. A big difference is that the language itself doesn't allow styling (like CSS), the downside being you get less flexibility but the upside being it will render correctly on any display with any resolution. For this I have also written a new type of web browser called NAVI which takes ALFI code and produces (somewhat) beautiful widgets and renders them using OpenGL. Source for both ALFI and NAVI: https://github.com/jezze/alfi My own ALFI website: http://www.blunder.se/ You