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<h1>Gemini Glossary</h1>
<blockquote>22:11 &lt;lukee&gt; "yesterday, whilst abseiling from Capcom over to circumlunar.space, I accidentally dropped my mental karabiner..."</blockquote>
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<blockquote>22:14 &lt;lukee&gt; THEY have the world wide web. Whereas WE have carnivorous worms that make caves look like the night sky..."</blockquote>
<blockquote>22:14 &lt;lukee&gt; spinning their silken threads to catch wary travellers</blockquote>
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<li><a href="ircs://irc.tilde.chat/gemini">~ lukee, #gemini@irc.tilde.chat</a>
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<p>Gemini is /not/ the web, and it has different idioms.  You don't /surf/, you /fly/.  You don't visit a /site/, but  a /capsule/.  This guide aims to clarify what's what in the NQ2.  Hang on to your karabiners!
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<h1>Gemini "users" / "authors"</h1>
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<p>Where the Web has USERs, Gemini has GEMINAUTs.  Sometimes they're also called GEMINEMs, or CREWMATEs, or TRAVELLERs, or just the common AUTHOR.  Since geminispace has a much higher author-reader ratio than the common Web, we can get away with that last one.
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<p>Other names for geminauts include:
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<li>mailing-list marauders
<li>Solderpunk's Utopian Cult
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<p>The best way to greet your fellow geminauts is AHOY, CREWMATE.  If you're feeling saucy, you can also write: HEYO, GEMINEMS.
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<h1>Gemini "sites"</h1>
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<p>Where the web has SITEs, Gemini has CAPSULEs.  That's the fairly standard nomenclature, though there are a few others I've found:
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<li>gemsite
<li>gemlog - equivalent to "blog"
<li>nilog - see "gemlog", but taking the end of the word "Gemini" -- since "blog" comes from weBLOG.
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<h1>Geminispace</h1>
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<blockquote>22:34 &lt;lukee&gt; What you think of as the Gemini constellation, is in fact a colony of Arachnocampa luminosa laying a mucous trap for an unsuspecting insect flying too high in search of the moon</blockquote>
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<p>You might think that SPACE is enough of a word to evoke the grand myster of Gemini and its peoples, but let me tell you, it's not.  We've come up with a lot of ideas for what to call the collection of all Gemini capsules:
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<li>NQ2: from the quadrant of sky the Gemini constellation is in
<li>constellation: a collection of stars
<li>geminiverse: like, Universe, but ... you know, Gemini (h/t lukee, who else?!)
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<h1>Contrubute your own!</h1>
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<p>Just use TITAN to edit this page, you can get it here:
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<li><a href="https://alexschroeder.ch/cgit/phoebe/tree/script/titan">TITAN perl script</a>
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<p>use the token 'edwin' :)

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