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I kind of miss the days when people had servers and ".plan" and ".project" files that folks could read via finger servers. We used them in college, but I guess
by butterisgood 5y ago
I kind of miss the days when people had servers and ".plan" and ".project" files that folks could read via finger servers.
We used them in college, but I guess folks would need shell accounts on unix systems to do that today?
I miss lightweight internet stuff. Maybe gemini will bring some of that back?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
- Matthias1 5y agoI know Gemini has encouraged me to start a blog. Of course it’s possible to blog over HTTP. (I mirror my gemlog to my website.) But it’s so much more enjoyable to write and browse in an ecosystem that’s designed for it.
- koeng 5y agoHow do you mirror the gemlog to HTTP? I've found a lot of methods for like active proxies, but I'd really like something that could create a static site from my gem text files.
- JohnL4 5y ago.plan: None of your business. Go away. You have mail.
- moogly 5y agoBack in the mid-to-late 90s when it was (somewhat) popular for game developers to use .plan files, there were some gaming news sites like Shacknews and Blues News aggregating that content for you. These were definitely proto-blogs.