Gemini is Markdown-but-worse over HTTP-but-worse. The modern Web and all its crappiness didn't come about because there's something inherently wicked in HTML and HTTP, it came about because people built things on top of the basic foundation, extending (sometimes poorly) and expanding.
The more people play with Gemini, the more they'll want to "extend" it... and the closer they'll bring it to HTTP, because it follows the exact same fundamental model once you strip off the extraneous document format specification. Hell, there's no reason you couldn't serve HTML over the Gemini protocol, along with Javascript and all the rest.
I've said before, if you want to pretend you're an undergrad in 1993, go play around on LambdaMOO or something else that actually dates from that time, something that's more interesting than shipping text files over "HTTP but the status codes are shorter". Hell, all anybody does on Gemini is write their "gemlogs" anyway, and if you want to publish short texts on a weird system that needs users to run a special client anyway...
> @create $note named "blog post 9/11/2024"
> write "This is the first line of my blog post" on blog
The more people play with Gemini, the more they'll want to "extend" it... and the closer they'll bring it to HTTP, because it follows the exact same fundamental model once you strip off the extraneous document format specification. Hell, there's no reason you couldn't serve HTML over the Gemini protocol, along with Javascript and all the rest.
I've said before, if you want to pretend you're an undergrad in 1993, go play around on LambdaMOO or something else that actually dates from that time, something that's more interesting than shipping text files over "HTTP but the status codes are shorter". Hell, all anybody does on Gemini is write their "gemlogs" anyway, and if you want to publish short texts on a weird system that needs users to run a special client anyway...
> @create $note named "blog post 9/11/2024"
> write "This is the first line of my blog post" on blog
> write "And this is the second" on blog
> read blog