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Re: "[preformatted] Building a Better Text World: Notes on..."
There is a point to be made that smallnets may be local. If ASCII works for your audience, why not. In spite of what they teach the kids these days, inclusiveness is a form of premature optimization and niche solutions are often best when infinite money is not available.
Jun 21 · 3 weeks ago
[preformatted] Building a Better Text World: Notes on Reviving ASCII Culture Gemini is famously a text-first protocol, one that improved upon Gopher by shifting to UTF-8 encoded gemtext. That being said, there remains a lot we can do to improve text culture. The purpose of this document is to briefly outline the general features of what ASCII is, should be, and could be. It is not complete. Follow up these leads with your own investigations. What is ASCII? ASCII, like fascism, is a term...
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