Yeah, it was nice idea

Yeah, it was nice idea

A principal benefit of the Web is that your data (the actual content) is supposed to be delivered to you in a way that makes it relatively easy to access (like a "view source" function actually working).

Unfortunatelly this idea was killed while Web was in it's infancy. Almost before it was born. If you remember initially HTML was supposed to only contain content and have no style. It got some usage but Web only started to spread like wildfire when this idea was abandoned and Netscape added tons of tags to make styling possible. Gopher (which refused to budge) was more-or-less killed. To think that the people will stop at this point is uttery ridiculous.