• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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    Hey also. Gopher is also getting a bit of a hit, but mostly due to a new protocol someone came up with called Gemini. It’s like Gopher a lot but has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

    You can find out more about it here. I recommend Lagrange for your client. Two places I like to go to are Station (gemini://station.martinrue.com/) and Antenna (gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/). BBS (gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/) is also a new one on the scene.

    And the nice thing about Lagrange is that it also supports the Finger protocol which basically is a way to read the .project or .plan file on a given user for the indicated system. Those files for those that never used them allowed a user to type a short status update into them that folks could then poll at any given time. Basically “ye olde status update”.

    There’s a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no/) and it works really well in Lagrange.

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        Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Minnesota owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.

        There was some early work supporting things like forms and search on Gopher. But it was pretty much abandoned as soon as WWW started catching on.

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      [Gemini] has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

      “Markup” would be a better term here. Markdown is a specific markup language which Gemini doesn’t use.

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      There’s a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no/)…

      That’s neat! Thanks!

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      Funnily enough I was toying with the idea of making a Gopher based Lemmy frontend for the lulz. Maybe Gemini then?

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        One cool thing is the game astrobotany, but Gemini shines in its focus on connecting through text only medium. Try midnight city for that.

        (If you can’t find URLs, ping me and I’ll update the post)

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      Wow thanks for this comment, Lagrange works incredibly well. I had a lot of fun trying out Gemini, I had been doing Gopher recently but Im definitely going to add this to my goofing around.