This is a weird take on history and divorced from the reality we live in even now.
The first ever web browser written by Tim Berners Lee at CERN on a NeXt computer was a web editor as well.
He envisioned that every web user would be a web creator. He is quoted many times as saying this.
Today: you can still stand up a web server at your house and forward the ports on your router. Unless you’re behind a carrier grade NAT (as those are becoming much more common now that IPv4 is exhausted).
Seems like you agree that there isn’t a simple way to do it.
The browser-as-editor didn’t even survive into the next generation of web software — Mosaic already was read-only. And that’s because Berners-Lee’s vision lacked any unified solution to hosting the web creations.
It's not just a matter of exposing the service to the internet. That's only part of the solution. The usability difference between consuming web content via browsers and creating/exposing it via web servers is vast. Most web users wouldn't even know where to start with today's tooling, and what's worse: even if such tooling existed, you'd have to convince them why they should use it in the first place. This is partly why adoption of any decentralized platform is an uphill battle.
Idk about web hosting and web servers, but a significant portion of the population at some point used torrenting software.
I feel like at the very least it should be possible to make tutorials for how to make and seed torrents (and why you might want to), and people can send or post torrent files or at least magnet links in places that already exist, like telegram (the app, not telegraphs from before phones were common) or email or sms text messages or forums or qr codes or anywhere that you can post at least a magnet link.
I feel like if people want bad enough to share and receive large files they can learn the basics of using torrent programs (and I've also seen more than one Android app (Libretorrent being one of them, and you can get it on the free/libre/open source Fdroid store if you want to))
Another thing to consider is that irc and matrix exist and I think they claim to be peer-to-peer, but I'd suggest taking a good look at whether that's true and what their limitations are, with irc seeming particularly limited when I tried it years ago (what do you mean it doesn't keep any history? I can't see what the convo was right before I showed up? That's dumb. Oh, and I can't see any messages somebody was trying to send me if I wasn't online and in that irc room at the time? That's super dumb. And where's the edit button? You mean I can't edit what I sent if I did a typo or sent a message before it was ready or something? And I can't even delete a sent message so I can redo it and replace the messed up message? What decade was this written in? Oh, like decades ago? Ok, maybe that makes some sense, but we have standards for our communication apps today)
Oh, and it was very obviously made by people with a commandline-first mentality, and you either know what command to tell it or you don't, and if you don't and you don't understand any help text there may or may not be, you're at the mercy of whoever introduced you to irc, especially if you're not used to thinking the way hardcore/old programmers think (which makes help text less than helpful).
No, I think those aren't exactly what I'd be looking for
The first ever web browser written by Tim Berners Lee at CERN on a NeXt computer was a web editor as well.
He envisioned that every web user would be a web creator. He is quoted many times as saying this.
Today: you can still stand up a web server at your house and forward the ports on your router. Unless you’re behind a carrier grade NAT (as those are becoming much more common now that IPv4 is exhausted).