I respect the sentiment of starting from scratch to get rid of technical debt. The protocol is not very different than HTTP/0.9, with hindsight applied. That b

I respect the sentiment of starting from scratch to get rid of technical debt. The protocol is not very different than HTTP/0.9, with hindsight applied. That being said, the protocol interaction model is essentially the same as HTTP. There is another road where browsers get support for the text/gemini content-type but still talk HTTP only. It doesn't fix everything but it has the advantage of allowing normal users to participate in it.