I understand and empathize with the desire to restore the Internet as it previously existed as a constellation of weird neighborhoods and niche hangouts. Gemini

I understand and empathize with the desire to restore the Internet as it previously existed as a constellation of weird neighborhoods and niche hangouts. Gemini feels like a technological solution to a social/cultural problem though. I used Gopher and Veronica back in their heyday. The Internet was a fantastically cool novelty back in the days of bag phones and exorbitantly expensive long-distance calling, and I totally get wanting to recapture that feeling. I think it's a lost cause, though. Large parts of the world suddenly becoming easily and mostly instantly connected was a sort of species-level watershed moment. Those of us that were around for those early years were lucky to get to see it, but I don't think it can ever really be recreated, except as some sort of LARP.