The geminauts (Was: Gempub 1.0.0 ; A new eBook format based on Gemini Protocol's Gemtext

[ew.gemini]

Hello,

'Stephane Bortzmeyer' <stephane@sources.org> writes:

>
> I don't know if a researcher already did a survey of geminauts, and of
> their age. Are they old people nostalgic of the beginning or young
> people eager to revolutionize "Dad's Web"? I was also a Usenet admin
> at the time of C&S.

I'm 58. And I could in theory have lived through all the stages
of the evolving internet. However, I had access only at
university to various degrees. I was reading usenet for a while.
But then, I was a student in physics, so computers were merely
tools. I very much agree with R.Hamming: The purpose of
computing is insight, not numbers. This quote predates me by a
bit ;)

I'm very text centric. I live on the shell and in emacs. I type
"man" faster than I reach for webbrowser+search-engine. So
gemini is simple enough for me to just write text down.

I'm amazed that gemini attracts youngsters as well. Good on you!
Content is imho much more important than "the looks" --- with a
few exceptions.

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,
~ew


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Keep it simple!