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2024-06-05
So after joining tilde.club and setting up my gopherhole and gemini capsule now it's actually time to write something... Since this is my first time, like ever, of blogging/phlogging/... I guess I'll just tell about how I got here.
I'm born at the end of the 80's and although I've had a computer my entire life and access to the web most of my life I actually never heard of the text based protocols like gopher or gemini. It was already a long while I was getting fed up about where the web was going, being the ad-ridden, tracking shithole it currently is, but I only started remembering how awesome it was when I was young. Geocities was a thing and having a website was considered cool (and nerdy).
I actually found out about Gopher because of Geocaching. Really, geocaching... How you might ask?
I'm using an app called Geooh Go. A recent update introduced an AI assistent to summarize the logs and get extra hints from them, or so I think because it doesn't work for me. When trying to figure out what was wrong I googled (well actually DuckDuckGo-ed) the name of the "AI" assistant: GOpher...
This led me down the rabbithole of Gopher, installing the Overbite app on my phone and rediscover the wonders of the small, content driven, text-based internet. Not long after I also discovered Gemini and the Rosy Crow app.
Reading phlogs and gemlogs inspired me to do something like it myself. With a new pseudo I can post anything I want while still sort of being anonymous and not having to worry about my boss reading this for example. I'm also pretty sure I won't be bombarded with ads trying to get me to buy something I don't need.
I haven't installed any desktop apps yet to browse Gopherspace or Gemini so suggestions are welcome :-)
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