alcinnz, (edited ) I'm curious how compelling my hardware-Internet Communicator hypothetical is!
So: Given the opportunity to implement TCP/IP, HTML/CSS, (not JS, makes the hypothetical less interesting), Gemini, XMPP, eMail JPEG, PNG, WOFF, Xiph media, DVI, USB, etc from scratch on a novel string-centric CPU (with a couple coprocessors) designed specifically for it... Would you be interested?
Respond to expand on what interests you, or if there's an alternate computer architecture which interests you more.