You can't fix a broken wheel. Let the downvotes illustrating the ignorance of HN pop culture start....

This web link post, the original NEXT webbrowser as a web page, tries to celebrate and revive the reinvention of the broken wheel.

The World Wide Web, browser and html standards are a very broken wheel. Alan Kay, the inventor of personal computing, explains why:

Some of the comments of youtube are fun too.

This lecture Alan aimed at this particular audience, the computer science (programming) students at University of Illinois, where they programmed the second browser, the second broken wheel 20 years after Alan and Dan had showed them how do do it better.

Dan Ingalls implemented most of Alan Kay's invention of the personal computer, in the following demo's he shows how to fix the webbrowser's broken wheel a bit.

The Lively Kernel would be another way to fix html but retain the web. Two demos says it all:

https://youtu.be/gGw09RZjQf8?t=147

https://youtu.be/QTJRwKOFddc?t=234

Their Squeak, Etoys and Croquet fixed it completely:

Early Croquet demo (there are several others): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZO7av2ZFB8

Croquet in webbrowser: https://codefrau.github.io/jasmine/

Demo of webbrowser replacement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM

Squeak and all its predecessors: https://smalltalkzoo.computerhistory.org

Etoys: https://squeak.js.org/etoys/

CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989 (2019)