Happy birthday, Gemini!

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On 21/6/20 12:14 am, solderpunk wrote:
> (this message also available in Geminispace at
> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/happy-birthday-gemini.gmi)
>
> Last summer I had been doing a lot of thinking and a lot of writing in
> my phlog on the subject of improvements which could be made to gopher,
> as part of a wider conversation which was going on in the phlogosphere
> at the time.  I wanted to keep following that train of thought, but I
> knew that not everybody in the Gopher community was interested, and I
> also didn't want the subject to steal too much focus away from the other
> things I had been happily phlogging about for years.  So I decided to
> start an entirely new section of my gopherhole, and announced in my
> phlog that I would be sticking all future posts on the matter of new
> protocol design there, in a separate space for those who wanted to
> follow it.  In the same announcement, I gave the thing a name for the
> first time: Project Gemini!  I made that announcement on June 20th,
> 2019.
>
> At the time, I honestly didn't consider the project anything more
> than a thought experiment.  I was genuinely shocked when I heard just
> two days later on June 22nd that Sean Conner had gone and actually
> *implemented* the damn thing and setup a publically accessible Gemini
> server at gemini.conman.org.  I'm no less surprised to be writing this
> message one year later in the knowledge that Geminispace is just shy of
> *one hundred* public servers!  The enthusiasm that Gemini has attracted
> and the growth that the community and the space have undergone in the
> past year has exceeded my every expectation.
>
> I would like to say "thank you" to everybody who has contributed to
> Gemini in a small way or a big way in this time.  Thanks to everybody
> who has helped shape the protocol through discussion on the mailing list
> (and thanks to the generous host of this this mailing list!); to
> everybody who has written a server, or a client, or any other software;
> to everybody who is running a Gemini server; to everybody who is
> producing content for Geminispace; and to everybody who is helping to
> spread awareness of the project.
>
> We've come a long way in the past year, and I think we can rightly be
> very proud of what we've built.  Now that the fundamentals of the
> protocol have solidified, I am very excited to see what we can achieve
> together as we start to shift focus toward building both static and
> dynamic content in our new space: the Gemini journey has only just
> begun.
>
> Onward and upward!
>
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk
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