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Alan gemini at bunburya.eu
Mon Apr 26 20:52:36 BST 2021
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I'm 31, and my first introduction to the web was in the late 90s. The "old web" of my memories is Geocities, marquee tags, flaming text and gratuitous use of GIFs (well, some things don't change I guess). Javascript was far from ubiquitous, but it was gaining popularity (9 year old me had a great time playing with alerts and prompts on my Angelfire page, which wouldn't have made for a great user experience, if I'd had any users to begin with).
So, for me Gemini isn't really a return to anything, because the cleanliness and minimalism it aims for predate even my earliest experience of the WWW. Though I'm sure browsing Geminispace would be a breeze on dial-up - until someone wanted to make a phone call...
On 26/04/2021 19:44, Göktuğ Kayaalp wrote:
On 2021-04-26 08:31 +02, 'Stephane Bortzmeyer' <stephane at sources.org> 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.
27yo here. We’re the generation that had it the worst, literally went
to school and back uphill both ways :P I was a teenager as free software
desktop went from a hackers’ joke to a reality, almost. Saw computing
fly towards a nirvana of sorts, then get T-boned by FAANG and slowly
become the thing it is today. We went sideways and backwards.
What brings me to gemini is thus not really nostalgia but a desire to
track back to ~2010 and move in the better direction, reclaim that
ruined climax, if you will. Same with Fediverse, with static websites.
That’s also maybe why I wasn’t ever a fan of Gopher. I don’t think of
Gemini as a retro thing (even tho I like the vibe) or a minimalist,
simplistic thing (even tho I like the perks). This whole thing feels
like a net step forward to me.
-gk.