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Offline newgroups

I've never used a newgroups. Thinking that that was an ancient part of

the internet that are slowly dying and not worth visiting. However reading

more and more of Solderpunks and Ploums quest to get an offline internet

I'm starting to wonder if what they really are looking for is newsgroups.

I would be very interested to read their thoughts about why a cached

gemini is different from a newsgroup.

Dialup internet

I'm old enough to have grown up with dailup internet. It was expensive

and internet time was precious. No way I could be connected to the internet

while not using it activily. When Windows 95 come with it's task bar that

was constantly connected to the internet, I thought that sounded crazy!

I'd a very primitive system. I wrote all emails in Wordpad, then I connected

to internet, logged into hotmail and send my email. I took only a few

minutes.

Of course it would have been much faster if I'd used an offline email client

but that was out of my computer knowledge at the time.

Custom BBS

I've also never used a BBS, although for some reason I really want to. Or

maybe it's not a BBS I want. I want a custom made program, locally run

and rendered and with local content. That share content with other users.

The reason I haven't started building on this yet is quite simple. I miss

content. Gemini has sort of managed to solve this by becoming a blog platform.

However really good content is what makes a platform really great.

I want to read books, blog posts and information. Tutorials and facts.

Documentaries and fiction. Wikipedia is one step, but not enough to satisfy

my need for quality content. Let's hope that gemini will fill this hole

and that we can see more information turn up here.