I've never used a newgroups. Thinking that that was an ancient part of
the internet that are slowly dying and not worth visiting. However reading
more and more of Solderpunks and Ploums quest to get an offline internet
I'm starting to wonder if what they really are looking for is newsgroups.
I would be very interested to read their thoughts about why a cached
gemini is different from a newsgroup.
I'm old enough to have grown up with dailup internet. It was expensive
and internet time was precious. No way I could be connected to the internet
while not using it activily. When Windows 95 come with it's task bar that
was constantly connected to the internet, I thought that sounded crazy!
I'd a very primitive system. I wrote all emails in Wordpad, then I connected
to internet, logged into hotmail and send my email. I took only a few
minutes.
Of course it would have been much faster if I'd used an offline email client
but that was out of my computer knowledge at the time.
I've also never used a BBS, although for some reason I really want to. Or
maybe it's not a BBS I want. I want a custom made program, locally run
and rendered and with local content. That share content with other users.
The reason I haven't started building on this yet is quite simple. I miss
content. Gemini has sort of managed to solve this by becoming a blog platform.
However really good content is what makes a platform really great.
I want to read books, blog posts and information. Tutorials and facts.
Documentaries and fiction. Wikipedia is one step, but not enough to satisfy
my need for quality content. Let's hope that gemini will fill this hole
and that we can see more information turn up here.