From 8375fead23196531f871f149f9fbd3c1f6efd32a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Russell R. Riker" Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 18:39:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Adding lots to my gemini page --- index.gmi | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.gmi b/index.gmi index 351227f..64488d2 100644 --- a/index.gmi +++ b/index.gmi @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +``` ____ _ __ _____ ____ _ / __ \_____ | | / /___ _/ ___/____ _/ __ )(_) / / / / ___/ | | /| / / __ `/\__ \/ __ `/ __ / / @@ -6,15 +7,85 @@ \\\ ----------------------------------------------------->> /// +``` Welcome to the Doctors geminarium. Still trying to figure out what to do with this place. # My Geminarium Hoping to use this kind of a blog of me learning about the Gemini project/protocol. +## The spec +=> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi The Gemini Spec + ## Gemini Clients I've tried ### Bombadillo -### GemiNaut +Great cli client. It's also a gopher client. + +## GemiNaut + +* Windows client +* Can do gemini, gopher, and I think html. Need to double check that last one. +* Written in c# + + +## Things I've found in the Gemiverse that made me smile + +=> gemini://gemlog.blue/users/acdw/1600890858.gmi The Art to writting textfiles.. or T-FILES by acdw + + +## Odd random thoughts + +### More then gopher, but less then modern html/css/js +So I'm old. My first computer was a Commodor VIC-20, and first experance of +internet type stuff was dialing into BBS back in the early 80's. Or using one +of the public terminals at the library to get into the few gopher systems. Which +to 12 or 13 year old me, thought that was just the coolest thing ever. So I'm +guessing that one reason I like Gemini so much, is that there is a sense of +nostilga to it. But also my dislike of what the modern day consumsion of +information on the internet has turned into. + +From that time I had a few other computers, till I got to college and got to use +a trully multi-user system. A Digital Equipment Corp VAX 6520, and two +MicroVax's that the computer science department ran. And while the school had a +couple graphical workstations. Also most all comuter access was done over text +terminals. VT100's, VT220's, and VT320's. This as the late 80's. It was all +text based, and wonderful. + +Why is this important? Well I like to think that what you read is more +important, then how you read it or how it's displayed. Which is something that +modern web stuff seems to like to make you think is more imporant. Where they +like to show you little bit sized chuncks, that get them more views and clicks, +because you have to keep clicking to just read more of the content. And yes, I +understand how this all came about. + +Also IMHO, it seems like we are asking web sites to do more and more then they +where ever designed to do.From that time I had a few other computers, till I got +to college and got to use a trully multi-user system. A Digital Equipment Corp +VAX 6520, and two MicroVax's that the computer science department ran. And +while the school had a couple graphical workstations. Also most all comuter +access was done over text terminals. VT100's, VT220's, and VT320's. This as +the late 80's. It was all text based, and wonderful. + +Why is this important? Well I like to think that what you read is more +important, then how you read it or how it's displayed. Which is something that +modern web stuff seems to like to make you think is more imporant. Where they +like to show you little bit sized chuncks, that get them more views and clicks, +because you have to keep clicking to just read more of the content. And yes, I +understand how this all came about. + +Also IMHO, it seems like we are asking web sites to do more and more then they +where ever designed to do. There are so many layers, frameworks, and libraries +that must be loaded, that everything is bloated beyond imagein. Or maybe it's +we are asking web browsers to do more then they should ever be asked? I had to +stop running chrome because the insane amount of memory it would take up. I +hate to say it, but even the new Microsoft Edge does better on memory. I ended +up tring FireFox (talk about going full circle) and it seems pretty good. But +this isn't supposed to be about web browsers. This is supposed to be about why +I think the Gemini Protocal is COOL. + +* Share info easily. If you can write markdown, you can create a gemini .gmi + file. Really doesn't getting any simpler then that. +*