Subj : Re: mastodon
To   : Ed Vance
From : n2qfd
Date : Wed Apr 10 2024 03:13 pm

 That's the best part of this thing isn't it Ed? I don't think we ever stopped being a creature that sat around the fire and told and listened to stories. 
 Something I'm playing with this past few days is Gemini. I have orbited around the Small Internet now for a little while and that's part of why I came back to BBSing. But I also just like playing with this stuff. We grew up with Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, 73's, QST and CQ and it's just fun to make things. At some point the lego's became electronics for me too, or maybe that's just the grown up me playing lego and my castle is a BBS on a Raspberry Pi! 
  Gemini is a protocol that came about some years ago as an answer to http bloat and an Internet some of us were not finding palatable anymore. It's text, it's simple to make a page (capsule) and some say a child of gopher. I think there's only a million pages (capsules) to date so it's not that robust and there's the usual hurdles. It requires it's own browser. But it has a super light footprint and would make a great parallel to http so there would always be a slim functional text version of every site out there. 
  When I was a student in Prague in 2000 we were still using text browsers at university. I'd have loved to see this format instead of dealing with Yahoo through a text browser... 
  So, legos... I actually make a living in and around civil engineering and that means it stays a hobby and all in good fun. 

  best 73 to you too, 

 Mal

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