The web's not tangible. Unless you like, print everything out or something which is silly. I go to a local club. I pay a cover charge at the door. I have to pay for every drink I consume.
Some clubs offer snacks for free like peanuts or pretzels or popcorn.
Others have machines that charge for a candy bar. Still other bars have a grill in the back and serve 'real' food and charge for that. Depends on the quality of the food. On the Internet if you start charging people for reading or posting pages, you're basically doing the equivalent of putting machines at every table and position at the bar, and every time someone opens their mouth to talk to someone else in the room, including the bartender, they gotta put a quarter in the slot. They tried that with bathroom stalls and people just climbed under the door.