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> The Web is your orchestral music, Gemini is low-fi chiptune. Likening the web to orchestral music is questionable.
by zepto 5y ago
> The Web is your orchestral music, Gemini is low-fi chiptune.
Likening the web to orchestral music is questionable.
- boring_twenties 5y agoNoisecore might be a better comparison.
- gwern 5y agoThe other end is questionable too. IMO, Gemini has too many features to be the 'low-fi chiptune' of hypertext. Every time I look at it, I come away thinking it is not in any sweet spot but perhaps the worst of both worlds: too featureful to truly foster creativity by constraint, and yet lacking entirely too many features to compete with a simple robust Markdown static site stack. If we wanted the pixel art or low-fi chiptune of hypertext, both historically and in terms of esthetic, we'd be targeting classic textfiles: 80-col ASCII art .txt (maaaybe with the absolute bare minimum of adding a clickable link for navigation to make up for the lack of a TUI BBS interface wrapping the individual text files).
- zepto 5y agoThat’s pretty much gopher already.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoThe web used to be jazzier with blink tags, Comic Sans, red-on-blue H1, and giant spew walls of yellow text lacking subpages.