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@alice-sur-le-nuage It may not be an entirely dumb idea. A lot of people have unlimited talk, but not unlimited data. Maybe there is something there? Of all things, Gemini should run fine over a 128k connection. 😂
Dec 06 · 11 days ago
You could still run Telnet as well as Gemini (and possibly other protocols such as NNTP, IRC, SSH, etc). This is separate of whether or not you will also have a telephone number to provide access.
With a real dialup connection or via SSH, you do not need Gemini's encryption... may as well use one of the simpler sister protocols.
I think there are issues with modems over VoiP (and modern cell phones) due to the compression used. I’d expect it is possible to make something work but I don’t think you will approach the speeds that were possible the over metal.
@pista one would definitely need some sort of custom hardware, with a phone modem in it and then there would still be the hurdle that proper mobile phone lines don't exist anymore. We have some partial stuff with 3G, but that is going away soon. Then we will only have VoIP like calling, cos LTE (called 4G) and 5G are data only technologies.
So the whole idea might even be futile, as it is basically data anyway, so just using data makes more sense. 😂
You could rig up your router to throttle to 300bps if you feel particularly masochistic
Security though obscurity. Encrypt your data, encode your data within voice, encode the voice to data.
@pista Seems like a lot of work, for something that really isn't dialup at that point. 😂
BBSes — There oughta be more BBSes on Gemini. I don't mean copies of this capsule, I mean actual BBSes (dial-in or telnet) that also have a Gemini frontend. Log in, check messages and new files, play a door game or two, check your favourite FidoNet echoes.