chat over gemini (or, let's play with streaming text)

[Anna “CyberTailor”]

On 2021-10-05 17:15, Omar Polo wrote:
> Thinking of text/gemini as a (possibly) "infinite" stream of lines is an
> interesting perks of gemini, and can unlock the creation of simple, yet
> very powerful applications.  Think of a fediverse instance over gemini,
> or maybe station, with a "feed" page that streams toots/posts.  Or a
> news site that streams live events.
> 
> Now, not every capsule needs to stream pages of course, but I was mostly
> trying to bring up the point again, and see if it stimulates someone
> to create something more useful. ;-)

There's a capsule that renders ASCII art using streaming with
intentional slowdown to emulate modem-like download speed.

gemini://ansi.hrtk.in/