[userbinator]

Provided one had a network stack, it would've actually been possible to use Google on a ZX Spectrum until a short while ago, as it still listened on port 80 and the usual /search?q=<query goes here> was all that was necessary. Now Google has destroyed that, and even with HTTPS it refuses to do anything without JS.

[anthk]

Once you have gopher (magical.fish and soon a gopher->gemini bridge, thus gemini://gemi.dev will be available from gopher, and from that, the News Waffle) and irc -> bitlbee to the rest of the networks, you won't need the web at all.

I mean:

gopher->gemini->web via News Waffle, enough to read news sites and blogs

irc->bitlbee->IM and chat networks, from Mastodon to XMPP, Steam, Discord...