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Howdy mherdeg! I don't think I've heard of Gale, nor can I find it now that you mention the name... Which I guess is consistent with your "fell off the face of

• mherdeg 4y ago
  Here's a smidgen of context: https://web.archive.org/web/20020126184926/http://www.gale.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020126184926/http://www.gale.o... https://web.archive.org/web/20011221165350/http://gale.org/engage.html https://web.archive.org/web/20011221165350/http://gale.org/e... https://web.archive.org/web/20020214082814/http://gale.org/locations https://web.archive.org/web/20020214082814/http://gale.org/l... https://web.archive.org/web/20011127185333/http://fugu.gale.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20011127185333/http://fugu.gale.... I think it was popular in a Caltech crowd? I think a zephyrgram was a "puff"? I think there was a fairly sophisticated tiered location/tag hierarchy that is very very broadly related to topic/stream/reaction emoji. Some of the contributor have usernames that look very familiar (I think that's the same jtr whose username I've seen elsewhere, for example).
• cjbprime 4y ago
  I used Gale for years (met my spouse there a long time ago!) -- I think you can think of it as a Zephyr clone (as the name implies.. but from Caltech), so it shares the same kind of auto-created sub-categories model, and has federation. There were a decent array of text, nurses, and GUI (Tk!) clients.