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# Odd random thoughts
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## More then gopher, but less then modern html/css/js
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So I'm old. My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20, and first experience of
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internet type stuff was dialing into BBS back in the early 80's. Or using one
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of the public terminals at the library to get into the few gopher systems. Which
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to 12 or 13 year old me, thought that was just the coolest thing ever. So I'm
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guessing that one reason I like Gemini so much, is that there is a sense of
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nostalgia to it. But also my dislike of what the modern day consumption of
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information on the internet has turned into.
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From that time I had a few other computers, till I got to college and got to use
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a truly multi-user system. A Digital Equipment Corp VAX 6520, and two
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MicroVAX's that the computer science department ran. And while the school had a
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couple graphical workstations. Also most all computer access was done over text
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terminals. VT100's, VT220's, and VT320's. This as the late 80's. It was all
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text based, and wonderful.
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Why is this important? Well I like to think that what you read is more
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important, then how you read it or how it's displayed. Which is something that
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modern web stuff seems to like to make you think is more important. Where they
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like to show you little bit sized chunks, that get them more views and clicks,
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because you have to keep clicking to just read more of the content. And yes, I
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understand how this all came about.
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Also IMHO, it seems like we are asking web sites to do more and more then they
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where ever designed to do. From that time I had a few other computers, till I got
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to college and got to use a truly multi-user system. A Digital Equipment Corp
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VAX 6520, and two MicroVAX's that the computer science department ran. And
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while the school had a couple graphical workstations. Also most all computer
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access was done over text terminals. VT100's, VT220's, and VT320's. This was
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the late 80's. It was all text based, and wonderful.
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Again going back to asking web stuff to do way more then it was designed to do.
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There are just so many layers, frameworks, and libraries that must be loaded,
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that everything is bloated beyond imagine. Or maybe it's we are asking web
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browsers to do more then they should be asked? I had to
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stop running chrome because the insane amount of memory it would take up. I
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hate to say it, but even the new Microsoft Edge does better on memory. I ended
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up trying FireFox (talk about going full circle) and it seems pretty good. But
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this isn't supposed to be about web browsers.
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## This is supposed to be about why I think the Gemini Protocol is COOL.
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* Share info easily. If you can write markdown, you can create a Gemini .gmi file. Really doesn't get any simpler then that.
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* Your content, not the font, or color are the important things.
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* It's fast.
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* Gives you options of loading html stuff in your web browser (client dependant I think) if you really must.
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