Hyper-G was no protocol, it was a better web/www. The protocol was called HTP (Hyper Text Protocol) as far as I remember. It promised link consistency, rich clients (Amadeus was the windows browser/editor, even with VR interfaces), and support for immediate search.
But www/httpd won because it was free and it demanded no session storage on the server, only in the client. Their protocol was session-free, which enabled scaling httpd to millions. Hyper-G was better, but didn't scale that well, and the javascript rewrite was a failure.
I had to write my first webpages in Hyper-G but then eventually jumped ship and we installed our own competing linux webserver on the TU-Graz, which soon overtook the official ones in traffic and usability.
But www/httpd won because it was free and it demanded no session storage on the server, only in the client. Their protocol was session-free, which enabled scaling httpd to millions. Hyper-G was better, but didn't scale that well, and the javascript rewrite was a failure.
I had to write my first webpages in Hyper-G but then eventually jumped ship and we installed our own competing linux webserver on the TU-Graz, which soon overtook the official ones in traffic and usability.