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> 22:11 <lukee> "yesterday, whilst abseiling from Capcom over to circumlunar.space, I accidentally dropped my mental karabiner..."

> 22:14 <lukee> THEY have the world wide web. Whereas WE have carnivorous worms that make caves look like the night sky..."
> 22:14 <lukee> spinning their silken threads to catch wary travellers

=> ircs://irc.tilde.chat/gemini ~ lukee, #gemini@irc.tilde.chat

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!

# Gemini "users" / "authors"

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.

The best way to greet your fellow geminauts is AHOY, CREWMATE.  If you're feeling saucy, you can also write: HEYO, GEMINEMS.

# Gemini "sites"

Where the web has SITEs, Gemini has CAPSULEs.  That's the fairly standard nomenclature, though there are a few others I've found:



# Geminispace

> 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

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: