💾 Archived View for rawtext.club › ~sloum › geminilist › 006434.gmi captured on 2023-11-14 at 09:22:21. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2021-11-30)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Devin Prater r.d.t.prater at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 15:07:14 BST 2021
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Well, I'm 26, almost 27 oh my gosh I'm getting old! But yeah I just lovethe enharrent accessibility of Gemini, minus unlabeled blocks of course,but the fact that it's actually *hard* for once for content to not beaccessible is so, so refreshing. Like, even with its minimalism, it givespower to content to be the content, and not just semantics.Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.com
On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 4:47 AM Nathan Galt <mailinglists at ngalt.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021, at 11:31 PM, 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 04:35:29PM -0700,
raph at raphm.com <raph at raphm.com> wrote
a message of 57 lines which said:
Also, I'm new to this list and to Gemini (hi, everyone!), but I'm
old enough to remember when we called it "the net" and not "the
web". Gemini does a great job of bringing back the
impossible-to-describe feel of the early 1990s internet, right after
BBSs and right before Canter and Siegel did their thing and filled
up my NNTP drive. :)
I don't know if a researcher already did a survey of geminauts, and of
their age. Are they old people nostalgic of the beginning or young
people eager to revolutionize "Dad's Web"? I was also a Usenet admin
at the time of C&S.
One can split the difference. I was on the Internet back when Gopher was a
real contender and NNTP was something I used daily, but I never really
produced much on the Internet back then.
_Peak_ nostalgia for me can be summed up with this bit of (anachronistic)
CSS, tuned for a mid-to-late 90s aesthetic:
body {
font-family: Exocet, serif;
color: red;
background: black url(/images/quake-logo.jpg);
}
-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210426/402bb3c8/attachment.htm>