Way forward to use the internet for all Amiga flavours?

[kolla]

There was Internet before web browsers, not just BBSes, and Amiga was pretty darn good at it. But since web came along, all other “content protocols” have slowly faded away, sadly. Instead of asking “what good can Amiga do on the Internet”, one should ask “what good can the Internet bring to Amiga” - Instead of wasting time with browsers, use http and other protocols to deliver Amiga friendly, and even Amiga specific, content.

[kolla]

However, most content these days requires (for the average mortal) a web browser. Even our Amiga forums need a web browser, with https in the main.

I'm just wondering if we can have a program which can help our browsers give us what we want, without rewriting the browsers  - 'cos that isn't happening

What you are looking for is a web proxy that does rendering for you - this exists of course.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp

Personally, I would prefer just using old protocols as frontends to modern services, or native clients for amiga specific services. For example web forums such as this, could have Amiga native frontends as alternatives to web browsers, similar way to how Tapatalk works. Or use gopher.

You mention USENET - it should be well within reach to operate a small number of "amiga specific" NNTP servers.

IRC is luckily still alive and will probably never vanish

( I have played with the idea of adding SSL to old Finger and Talk and submit as April 1. RFCs, FingerS and STalk sounds good )