It's not even "early web"; even that had forms and styles. Gemini is intentionally more simple; it does not have forms, it has virtually no input, it has intentionally no styles so all pages look more or less the same.
The early web was all "hypermedia" and people already stuffed images and videos and java applets. Geocities was all animated gifs. Gemini is more like gopher, if it was designed in 21 century.
Gemini does not even have forms, or cookies, or logins, or even any way to input larger text, or write. Intentionally.
Of course people try to hack around that and use the query argument for input. But in general, Gemini is almost actively fighting that.
The early web was all "hypermedia" and people already stuffed images and videos and java applets. Geocities was all animated gifs. Gemini is more like gopher, if it was designed in 21 century.
Gemini does not even have forms, or cookies, or logins, or even any way to input larger text, or write. Intentionally.
Of course people try to hack around that and use the query argument for input. But in general, Gemini is almost actively fighting that.