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Alex // nytpu alex at nytpu.com
Sun Feb 28 20:21:05 GMT 2021
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On 2021-02-28 10:53PM, Ben wrote:
Any reason why port 1958 is chosen? I was thinking if it's adjacent to
Gemini (minus TLS) then why not something like 1964? Not unlike XMPP's use
of 5222 and 5223.The same reason Gemini uses 1965: Project Mercury was created in 1958.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury
As for the rest of it, I belive it's kind of silly. Solderpunk didn'tcome up with Mercury as some sort of alternative where they're giving upon Gemini, they posed it as a hypothetical point of comparison between avery simple protocol like Mercury and something more complex likeGemini. It was never meant to be taken as serious new protocolproposal, they use it as a marker for another possible position on the"complexity axis" between Gopher and the web. Gemini is one point onthat "axis," Mercury is another possible point, used as a referencebeacon to help keep Gemini in-scope.
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