Sorry but The Comment is the atomic matter of the internet. Before your complicated "http web pages" existed, we were sending each other comments, on talkd, on email, on newsgroups, on irc, on BBS. Personal web pages are just your generation's version of a BBS user news file.
I love this! Robin Sloan has been encouraging people to think in these directions this year, and is trying to help these inventors find each other: <a href="https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/" rel="nofollow">https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/</a><p>I have my own contribution to this conversation but I want to explain it in a big splashy blog post.