[austin-cheney]

That is not even remotely similar. A website is just content. Owning the entire service provides full ownership of content and data and it dictates to whom you will make that experience privately or publicly available to. This was the semantic web vision of Tim Berners Lee that never materialized.

[bruce511]

Nothing stops you doing that now, or at any time in the last decade.

[alcaide-mor]

I'm not sure about other countries, but in my country ISPs usually block port 80 (so I can't host my personal home page myself). Would such a revolution require a browser that defaults to another port?