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Welcome to Wobbly!

You might be wondering what this is. That's okay.

You know how website addresses start with http:// or https://? Those are network protocols, and they're not the only ones. The gemini network protocol was invented in 2019. It has some serious drawbacks that makes it a bad replacement for HTTP/HTTPS, but that's also its main selling point. Its real aim is a simplified experience, both as a developer, producer and consumer of content.

You can read more about gemini here.

But a web browser doesn't understand the gemini network protocol, nor the gemtext markup language. It speaks HTTP/HTTPS and HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Therefore, I've made Wobbly.

Wobbly is a gemini browser that runs inside your web browser. It's very basic:

It has a help button.
Back, Up (in the directory tree), Forward.
A URL address bar, and a button to Go!

Try opening this web page in full screen mode in your web browser! It'll probably look more familiar then.

Wanna see what's up in geminispace?

Check out Antenna, which aggregates a lot of content published in the last week.

Cheers,

ew0k