Zero Webservers Work

The webserver is the ultimate point of the telemetry stuff I’ve been doing with ESP Now.
Examples from Random Nerd Tutorials have always been reliable for me.
The one that was really reliable last year doesn’t display. None of the new examples I’ve tried are displaying a web page. I’m online. I’m getting the IP address. Chrome times out.

The old one was coded in the program. The new ones use SPIFFS. SPIFFS apparently initialized okay with the first example-

but I only get serial gibberish from this one:

But get this- it’s only one line of gibberish that constantly changes:
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