Ask HN: What Are Alternatives to the Internet?

Gemini was/is a big one from relatively recently. Don't see too many articles about it lately, possibly the traction it was getting is subsiding ...

Active community, maybe not, but teletext[1] and minitel[2] come to mind. Maybe also WAP[3]

There's a few abstractions of the web you can use today.

This only works in the loosest of senses for an analog to HTTP - certainly the way they're used, but some BBSes have modem connectivity.

amateur radio [4] and Tor browser.