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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Sat Jun 20 15:14:34 BST 2020
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Last summer I had been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of writing inmy phlog on the subject of improvements which could be made to gopher,as part of a wider conversation which was going on in the phlogosphereat the time. I wanted to keep following that train of thought, but Iknew that not everybody in the Gopher community was interested, and Ialso didn't want the subject to steal too much focus away from the otherthings I had been happily phlogging about for years. So I decided tostart an entirely new section of my gopherhole, and announced in myphlog that I would be sticking all future posts on the matter of newprotocol design there, in a separate space for those who wanted tofollow it. In the same announcement, I gave the thing a name for thefirst time: Project Gemini! I made that announcement on June 20th,2019.
At the time, I honestly didn't consider the project anything morethan a thought experiment. I was genuinely shocked when I heard justtwo days later on June 22nd that Sean Conner had gone and actually*implemented* the damn thing and setup a publically accessible Geminiserver at gemini.conman.org. I'm no less surprised to be writing thismessage one year later in the knowledge that Geminispace is just shy of*one hundred* public servers! The enthusiasm that Gemini has attractedand the growth that the community and the space have undergone in thepast year has exceeded my every expectation.
I would like to say "thank you" to everybody who has contributed toGemini in a small way or a big way in this time. Thanks to everybodywho has helped shape the protocol through discussion on the mailing list(and thanks to the generous host of this this mailing list!); toeverybody who has written a server, or a client, or any other software;to everybody who is running a Gemini server; to everybody who isproducing content for Geminispace; and to everybody who is helping tospread awareness of the project.
We've come a long way in the past year, and I think we can rightly bevery proud of what we've built. Now that the fundamentals of theprotocol have solidified, I am very excited to see what we can achievetogether as we start to shift focus toward building both static anddynamic content in our new space: the Gemini journey has only justbegun.
Onward and upward!
Cheers,Solderpunk