Oh, you give me fond memories of hand-coding, byte-by-byte, the smallest possible “null.gif”. That was a different web. Which had already gone too far, one might say!
I am very sympathetic to the minimalism drive. Let us never let Gemini servers specify fonts. Or even more than one color. ;-) But if we can’t display a gallery of more than one image on a “page”, then why support rendering images at all? Just go for an ncurses UI.
I’m having more flashbacks, now, to when the Macintosh happened and so many nerds insisted that real computers didn’t waste their power on bitmapped displays. I was one of those nerds. (Apple // forever! Telnet is the only internet protocol we’ll ever need!)
There are ncurses clients.♥