@lanodan @coolboymew Years ago, a friend
of mine had an insanely great idea, replacing voice menus with Gopher. So if you
called some company on the phone, you could deal with their Gopher menu
instead of the voice one. There's your BBS style interface. We have a
technology for making and displaying them easily. Maybe replace Gopher
with Gemini. Or maybe not; Gopher was made for this kind of thing.
Perhaps Gopher requests and responses exchanged over SMS?

Voice and touch-tone menus could stay around for people who want them.
Implementing them would be much simpler, too, because they could just be
thin Gopher clients with a voice and touch-tone interface.