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327 points andsoitis | 2 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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userbinator ◴[18 Nov 25 04:26 UTC] No.45961391[source]▶
Maybe this is just me showing my age, but I don't understand why reinvent everything when you could just go back to something like HTML 2.0 or even 3.2 with some minor changes. I probably hate what happened with the "modern web" as much as the Gemini developers, but going full NIH is unlikely to be a good solution when there's an existing "unmodern web" to develop for, and as a bonus, can be experienced even with a modern browser.

Never underestimate interoperability.

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tpoacher ◴[18 Nov 25 04:50 UTC] No.45961518[source]▶
Interesting outro. Interoperability is presumably one very big reason for this protocol.

As for why, all I can say is, download Lagrange, go to gemini://bleyble.com/cgi-bin/random, and see for yourself. It's one thing hearing about it and a completely different experience browsing the geminispace.

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1. rndmio ◴[18 Nov 25 09:08 UTC] No.45962975[source]▶
That was a terrible experience. For a start that site has an expired certificate, as do many of the pages it suggested, and of the pages that worked it was mostly people that dipped a toe in a few years ago and never came back or other broken function.
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2. tpoacher ◴[19 Nov 25 06:09 UTC] No.45976383[source]▶
You're welcome, I guess? xD