Its gonna fail. Early web won because of simple protocols (telnet, ftp, http, rfinger, IRC, smtp, zmodem) without encryption. You could literally telnet / nc into port and DO stuff. Encryption destroyed the simplicity of the internet...
My silly opinion. Encryption is literyally only thing blocking retro computers from being usable forever... (And js)
I would argue the reason the early web is a good memory now is that it was only used by a handful of nerds back then. All that encryption is there for a reason, and simplicity gives way to complexity because the internet of today has to serve orders of magnitude more people and use cases than it used to.
My silly opinion. Encryption is literyally only thing blocking retro computers from being usable forever... (And js)