"Given another 10 years of experimentation, I could 100% imagine WWW being seen as corporate, commercial and professional space."

Excerpt below is from the file /scripts/web included with the original netcat in 1995.

   #! /bin/sh
   ## The web sucks.  It is a mighty dismal kludge built out of a thousand
   ## tiny dismal kludges all band-aided together, and now these bottom-line
   ## clueless pinheads who never heard of "TCP handshake" want to run
   ## *commerce* over the damn thing.  Ye godz.  Welcome to TV of the next
   ## century -- six million channels of worthless shit to choose from, and
   ## about as much security as today's cable industry!
   ##
   ## Having grown mightily tired of pain in the ass browsers, I decided
   ## to build the minimalist client.  It doesn't handle POST, just GETs, but
   ## the majority of cgi forms handlers apparently ignore the method anyway.
   ## A distinct advantage is that it *doesn't* pass on any other information
   ## to the server, like Referer: or info about your local machine such as
   ## Netscum tries to!
   ##
   ## Since the first version, this has become the *almost*-minimalist client,
   ## but it saves a lot of typing now.  And with netcat as its backend, it's
   ## totally the balls.  Don't have netcat?  Get it here in /src/hacks!
   ## _H* 950824, updated 951009 et seq.
   ##

FWIW, I still use original nc and similar TCP clients to "interact" with the www. Works great.

Not fan of SSL, now TLS, which was in fact created to facilitate commercial use of the www, or "e-commerce", in 1990's.

As an ongoing experiment in a different protocol/space, I run CurveCP on home LAN.