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That's basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory.
wgetand friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.Thanks. This is really interesting but doesn't appear to be aimed at the same audience that I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of a solution for people who aren't technical and just want to share documentation or static style information and view that like a documentation site.
The hosting part is, indeed, a technical part but a tool like copyparty can help here:
https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/README.md#markdown-viewer
It runs everywhere, is just a single file you double-click to open and browse from your browser. Makdown files are automatically rendered. You can upload a bunch of files directly, or just send them by mail and put them in a directory served by copyparty