Created 2022-05-27
We have liftoff
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Here's the announcement I made on Wordpress:
Exciting stuff: I've managed to create a public-facing Gemini
capsule. I have tested it over at an account I created atsdf.org.
So everything checks out and should be working hunky-dory. Note
that, for now, the site won't be active 24/7. I'll turn my
server off at night-time, pending a more permanent solution.
Point your favourite gemini client to:
gemini://blinkyshark.chickenkiller.com
and have it! The domain name is a bit of an oddity, admittedly,
but I'm using FreeDNS, so I'm kinda going with a name I can get.
The plan for the foreseeable future is that my blog will now
reside on Gemini rather than WordPress. WordPress is a nightmare.
The internet in general is a nightmare. I want to try out Gemini
for awhile and see how I get on.
I won't be abandoning the Interwebs permanently. I still need
that for banking and stuff. Not to mention my favourite finance
site: Stockopedia.
Choosing a subdomain was difficult, and I stuck with the first
thing that worked: blinkyshark. It is named after a user called
"Blinky The Shark". I did not know him personally, but I was
aware that he posted a lot on the alt.comp.freeware Usenet
group. I used to frequent that group a lot, and even produced
daily digests, courtesy of a kind soul who gave me an account on
his aging Sun Unix machine. My apologies, but I don't remember
his name. I think his surname was Schmitt, and lived in either
Australia or US, if memory serves. He was a member of the ACM,
I think.
Blinky The Shark's real name was Lee Rizor. He passed away on
31 Jan 2009 (or the day after) at the age of 61. His username was
based on him hearing that sharks do not blink. (Apparently they
do actually blink). Blinky kept a small website of free software
for some time.
So that's the story behind the name "blinkyshark".