Gemini, an internet protocol

[spookyboogie]

My first `Random Topic` click carried me here and I've gotta say what a winner! This is so cool and I'm glad that, despite all the "who is still active" comments, I see people still posting as recently as today. Definitely going to while away several hours exploring Gemini.

Thanks for sharing!

[virtualpet2001]

very interesting thing - I had seen a couple mentions of "Gemini capsules" on the nerdy side of neocities and had been wondering what it was because google only led me to the spacecraft LOL
its very quaint and cute though i did notice that people are falling out of use with it immensely. i have actually been thinking a bit over "what if someone just made their own internet" but didnt realize it was actually a thing!
i think a protocol thats designed specifically for the weirdweb space (like we are in now) would be very fun but it would need to have some of the more "fun" features found in html in order to stick in any way. recreating early geocities by forcing people to comply with it? hehe

[Warthog]

Following some links here is a bit tedious since it looks like some unneeded junk gets added to hyperlinks, so I have to hover over or copy the link and then cut out an unnecessary http to make it work. And some places linked here just seem to have died.

I had fun with the exploring I'm able to do, but that exploration feels very limited and unfocused. Still I do think this is pretty cool and I'm happy I learned about it today.

[brennan]

I love gemini! I think it's great to have alternative Internet protocols.

I use https://smol.pub for my gemini capsule. It's $5 for a lifetime capsule and you get your site in both gemini:// and https://.

https://brennan.smol.pub

gemini://brennan.smol.pub

In fact, I made even made a Markdown2Gemtext converter so it's super easy to transfer any of your writing to Gemini format!