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Göktuğ Kayaalp self at gkayaalp.com
Mon Apr 26 19:44:09 BST 2021
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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 wentto school and back uphill both ways :P I was a teenager as free softwaredesktop went from a hackers’ joke to a reality, almost. Saw computingfly towards a nirvana of sorts, then get T-boned by FAANG and slowlybecome the thing it is today. We went sideways and backwards.
What brings me to gemini is thus not really nostalgia but a desire totrack back to ~2010 and move in the better direction, reclaim thatruined 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 ofGemini as a retro thing (even tho I like the vibe) or a minimalist,simplistic thing (even tho I like the perks). This whole thing feelslike a net step forward to me.
-gk.