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Stardate 22242 - Tuesday June 14 2022
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I'm chewing on the BBS thing, although I know I have to go ahead with it. I already have the domain name, and I pieced it together once, but it needs to be updated.
It's a good project to practice coding chops on, and at the end of the day can be a beneficial move.
Perhaps the thing that is catching me is that BBSes always had a theme or a purpose, and maybe I'm just trying to figure out what mine is. For me, the BBS world is now an equivalent of a dive bar. Everybody knows your name, even if it isn't your real one, nobody wants to sell you shit or track you down and cause problems. But they have things to talk about, and back in the day were civil.
I know part of my schtick is that I love to tinker. I like to play with my servers and workstations. I play in the cloud for a living. But the outside web is just shit for me. Ads everywhere to slow down my system and I have to wade through them to get anything done. That's why this thing I think of as the "undernet" is such a cool thing. It's the undernet, and not the darkweb. That's something completely different.
The undernet is the places the average numbnuts joe won't be. In the loverly gemini world I like so much, the BBS world, gopherspace, where all the original internet was and still is.
I'm thinking seriously about something I pulled off before, where all graphical browsers hit the WHM numb holder page, but all text browsers hit a real website, with a lot of resources. But I still love gemini, and I still consider this my primary site. Maybe I'll do a hybrid of some sort. That has my brain going all happy.
I'll chew on that.