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

[The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]]

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On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 4:40 AM, Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:

> year of high school. I love minimalist low-bandwidth, high-content internet
> like text-friendly websites, Usenet, and IRC. I've actually been running my own

Same.  I was on dialup for far too long (until summer of 2000).  Ran a BBS on dialup
and Telnet (while on campus) from '95 until '99 or therabouts.

> Usenet server since last year, and would one day love to start a custom telnet/ssh

How much disk space does Usenet use these days?

> bbs (not just a dos emulated one). My gemini capsule is at gemini://gemini.theuse.net.

If you're looking for prior art to research before starting on your BBS software, I
can recommend one or two things.

> It doesn't have a ton of new content yet, but I'm slowly working on it. It's mostly
> archives of my wordpress blog for now.

I'm looking at adding a Gemini generation step to my blog deployments (right now, using
Pelican and a couple of plugins to build the HTML).

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