馃懡 mc

Gopher, Gemini, and the rise of the small Internet, on Linux Magazine: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/245/The-Rise-of-the-Small-Internet

3 years ago 路 馃憤 lykso, defunct, gnuserland, nristen, cobradile94, martin

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馃懡 lykso

Most likely, yes. Yet another situation where less would've been more. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 kevinsan

you could be right. I also think the http://gemini:// nonsense may have been mangled out by software trying to be too clever. 路 3 years ago

http://gemini://

馃懡 mc

@kevinsan Peraphs is a confusion related to this: 1 000 000 000= american billion (equivalent to a thousand million), 1 000 000 000 000= european billion (equivalent to a million million) 路 3 years ago

馃懡 gnuserland

it is a decent article. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 p13

@kevinsan 3.6 billion RPM hard drive? Yes please :D 路 3 years ago

馃懡 kevinsan

"compared with over a billion pages on the World Wide Web" - what decade is this guy from? Next week, he'll tell us how Gopher can run on a 60 megahertz hard disk. 路 3 years ago

馃懡 lykso

"Gopher addresses look like http://gopher://example.com, Gemini locations like http://gemini://example.com..."

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http://gopher://example.com

http://gemini://example.com