@kelbot I'll also call out #UUCP. It was one of the last 2 large-scale asynchronous communication methods we had (the last being email, which still survives in that form). Could talk over anything. #NNCP is a worthy successor and, while it doesn't do modems, it does do #encryption and USB drives.
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@kelbot Then there was #Gopher. There was something freeing about its structure, you know? A document is a document, a menu is a menu, and a search box is a search box, and they are different things. I built a WAP/WML (let's see how many people remember THAT) frontend to Gopher back in the early 2000s and that was pretty cool. Gemini is a nice successor, though if you're going to have in-document hyperlinks, might as well make linkable text while you're at it, I figure.
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