On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a sort of continuation of a prior thread I had made about the > least powerful hardware that could use Gemini. > > I honestly feel bad about this as I have neither real hardware of the > era, nor do I have coding experience. However in theory Gemini would > be great for retro enthusiasts as it would give them something > compsritovely resource light while also being actively worked on. > > Projects like The Old Web exist, and frankly make me smile as it > gives old hardware a way to Web, or at least explore the web that > was, somewhat natively. However I feel trying to force Big Web on > such old machines is 'solving' the square peg round hole problem with > a sledgehammer. > > Problem is while gopher roots would hint at the audiance here has a > higher than average number of retro enthusiasts there is no gurentee > at anyone caring to see what, say, Lagrange can be ported to. > > I also have another thought for devices that can't natively do tls > involving both a client, and a pi zero, or Arduino, or even something > built into that wifi to serial port device (forget the name but that > is just so danged handy to have if you retro.) To handle the security > bits so that those older devices can join in on the fun. > > Let the web demand more and more resources. Give old platforms as > well as new access to Gemini. > > I just... Don't know if anyone here is actually interested in Doing > The Thing. I just think it'd be neat and would get coverage by people > like Micheal mjd, lgr, etc alongside. I have some old Windows PDAs that could use a Gemini client and a 32 bit Windows 7 dev machine. I was trying to get the last version of Qt that supported Windows CE running on that machine, but I didn't get far. There were also no readily available pre-built clients for 32 bit Windows 7 that I could find.
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