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IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Hey also. Gopher is also getting a bit of a hit, but mostly due to a new protocol someone came up with called Gemini. It's like Gopher a lot but has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

You can find out more about it here. I recommend Lagrange for your client. Two places I like to go to are Station (gemini://station.martinrue.com/) and Antenna (gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/). BBS (gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/) is also a new one on the scene.

And the nice thing about Lagrange is that it also supports the Finger protocol which basically is a way to read the .project or .plan file on a given user for the indicated system. Those files for those that never used them allowed a user to type a short status update into them that folks could then poll at any given time. Basically "ye olde status update".

There's a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no/) and it works really well in Lagrange.

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LuckyCharmsNSoyMilk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

the .plan file in a user’s home directory is displayed when the user is fingered

Heh.

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CubbyTustard@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary. The University of Michigan owned the code and proposed to charge server owners for using it. Meanwhile Sir Tim over at CERN was handing out the original httpd under an MIT-style license.
  
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  - guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    University of Minnesota, my dude...software named for their mascot.
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)
    
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  - raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Gopher lost out to WWW in part because Gopher was proprietary
    
    That may be so but gopher was never any fun in comparison to www
    
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    Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh, it was - before we had the WWW. I remember the day when a co-student told me to have a look at this new web thingy, “like gopher, but with hypertext!”.
    
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TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

[Gemini] has some (and I cannot emphasize this enough) very basic markdown.

"Markup" would be a better term here. Markdown is a specific markup language which Gemini doesn't use.

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- IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  See this? These are the comments I live for. You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
  
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raoulraoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

There’s a person that serves a weather reporting system via a finger interface at (finger://graph.no)…

That’s neat! Thanks!

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yukichigai@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Funnily enough I was toying with the idea of making a Gopher based Lemmy frontend for the lulz. Maybe Gemini then?

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pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What’s the cool thing to do there?

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TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wow thanks for this comment, Lagrange works incredibly well. I had a lot of fun trying out Gemini, I had been doing Gopher recently but Im definitely going to add this to my goofing around.

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