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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Gemini Glossary</title> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/default.css"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> </head> <body> <h1>Gemini Glossary</h1> <blockquote>22:11 <lukee> "yesterday, whilst abseiling from Capcom over to circumlunar.space, I accidentally dropped my mental karabiner..."</blockquote> <p> <blockquote>22:14 <lukee> THEY have the world wide web. Whereas WE have carnivorous worms that make caves look like the night sky..."</blockquote> <blockquote>22:14 <lukee> spinning their silken threads to catch wary travellers</blockquote> <p> <ul> <li><a href="ircs://irc.tilde.chat/gemini">~ lukee, #gemini@irc.tilde.chat</a> </ul> <p> <p>Gemini is /not/ the web, and it has different idioms. You don't /surf/, you /fly/. You don't visit a /site/, but a /capsule/. This guide aims to clarify what's what in the NQ2. Hang on to your karabiners! <p> <h1>Gemini "users" / "authors"</h1> <p> <p>Where the Web has USERs, Gemini has GEMINAUTs. Sometimes they're also called GEMINEMs, or CREWMATEs, or TRAVELLERs, or just the common AUTHOR. Since geminispace has a much higher author-reader ratio than the common Web, we can get away with that last one. <p> <p>The best way to greet your fellow geminauts is AHOY, CREWMATE. If you're feeling saucy, you can also write: HEYO, GEMINEMS. <p> <h1>Gemini "sites"</h1> <p> <p>Where the web has SITEs, Gemini has CAPSULEs. That's the fairly standard nomenclature, though there are a few others I've found: <p> <ul> <li>gemsite <li>gemlog - equivalent to "blog" <li>nilog - see "gemlog", but taking the end of the word "Gemini" -- since "blog" comes from weBLOG. </ul> <p> <h1>Geminispace</h1> <p> <blockquote>22:34 <lukee> What you think of as the Gemini constellation, is in fact a colony of Arachnocampa luminosa laying a mucous trap for an unsuspecting insect flying too high in search of the moon</blockquote> <p> <p>You might think that SPACE is enough of a word to evoke the grand myster of Gemini and its peoples, but let me tell you, it's not. We've come up with a lot of ideas for what to call the collection of all Gemini capsules: <p> <ul> <li>NQ2: from the quadrant of sky the Gemini constellation is in <li>constellation: a collection of stars <li>geminiverse: like, Universe, but ... you know, Gemini (h/t lukee, who else?!) </ul> <p> <h1>Contrubute your own!</h1> <p> <p>Just use TITAN to edit this page, you can get it here: <ul> <li><a href="https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/phoebe/tree/script/titan">TITAN perl script</a> </ul> <p> <p>use the token 'edwin' :) </body> </html>