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[users] Name for Gemini-style text with links?

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Mon Feb 15 13:17:13 GMT 2021

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Luke Emmet writes:

On 15-Feb-2021 10:30, Vasco Costa wrote:

Everyone seems to agree that HTML is hypertext, but opinions are

split, to say the least, about whether Gemini text is.

We are so used to the most pervasive hypertext system - the web - with

its fine grained inline markup, we may not realise that it is simply

one of the forms hypertext can take.

I know at least one hypertext purist who would argue that the web isn'thypertext either, because it doesn't meet many of the standards ofProject Xanadu. Web links aren't bi-directional, they can be broken, andthere's no transclusion.

I think we don't need to get hung up on whether Gemtext is hypertext.

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