No, I disagree about your incorrect statement

> The web was never about interchange of documents

See also http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/, your perception of what is and isn't viewable in a terminal, and what should be, is strange for somebody who claims to know the web's history.

Since the web was never intended to be viewed in a terminal, I stand by my position.

You realize that the web predates graphical web browsers, right?

Nope, it doesn't. TBL wrote WorldWideWeb along with the rest of the early web stack at CERN, and from the start it included a graphical browser which used the NeXT textclass (a richtext class), which could open anything the NeXT systems could open, which included styles, movies, postscript and sounds.

The Web has literally never been about VT100 text document displays. I'm not sure why this is hard to understand. That was gopher.

I'm really serious. I swear you young people sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldWideWeb

Here, email him yourself and ask away timbl [ a t ] w3.org