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(this message also available in Geminispace at gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/happy-birthday-gemini.gmi) Last summer I had been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of writing in my phlog on the subject of improvements which could be made to gopher, as part of a wider conversation which was going on in the phlogosphere at the time. I wanted to keep following that train of thought, but I knew that not everybody in the Gopher community was interested, and I also didn't want the subject to steal too much focus away from the other things I had been happily phlogging about for years. So I decided to start an entirely new section of my gopherhole, and announced in my phlog that I would be sticking all future posts on the matter of new protocol design there, in a separate space for those who wanted to follow it. In the same announcement, I gave the thing a name for the first time: Project Gemini! I made that announcement on June 20th, 2019. At the time, I honestly didn't consider the project anything more than a thought experiment. I was genuinely shocked when I heard just two days later on June 22nd that Sean Conner had gone and actually
<3 On 21/6/20 12:14 am, solderpunk wrote: > (this message also available in Geminispace at > gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/happy-birth day-gemini.gmi) > > Last summer I had been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of writing in > my phlog on the subject of improvements which could be made to gopher, > as part of a wider conversation which was going on in the phlogosphere > at the time. I wanted to keep following that train of thought, but I > knew that not everybody in the Gopher community was interested, and I > also didn't want the subject to steal too much focus away from the other > things I had been happily phlogging about for years. So I decided to > start an entirely new section of my gopherhole, and announced in my > phlog that I would be sticking all future posts on the matter of new > protocol design there, in a separate space for those who wanted to > follow it. In the same announcement, I gave the thing a name for the > first time: Project Gemini! I made that announcement on June 20th, > 2019. > > At the time, I honestly didn't consider the project anything more > than a thought experiment. I was genuinely shocked when I heard just > two days later on June 22nd that Sean Conner had gone and actually > *implemented* the damn thing and setup a publically accessible Gemini > server at gemini.conman.org. I'm no less surprised to be writing this > message one year later in the knowledge that Geminispace is just shy of > *one hundred* public servers! The enthusiasm that Gemini has attracted > and the growth that the community and the space have undergone in the > past year has exceeded my every expectation. > > I would like to say "thank you" to everybody who has contributed to > Gemini in a small way or a big way in this time. Thanks to everybody > who has helped shape the protocol through discussion on the mailing list > (and thanks to the generous host of this this mailing list!); to > everybody who has written a server, or a client, or any other software; > to everybody who is running a Gemini server; to everybody who is > producing content for Geminispace; and to everybody who is helping to > spread awareness of the project. > > We've come a long way in the past year, and I think we can rightly be > very proud of what we've built. Now that the fundamentals of the > protocol have solidified, I am very excited to see what we can achieve > together as we start to shift focus toward building both static and > dynamic content in our new space: the Gemini journey has only just > begun. > > Onward and upward! > > Cheers, > Solderpunk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200621/6bde 1f7b/attachment.htm>
> On Jun 20, 2020, at 16:14, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote: > > Onward and upward! Happy birthday Gemini! Blast from the past: http://textfiles.com/100/
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