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throwaway7356 30 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called ...

> Maybe this all means there’s a place on the net for gopher, Gemini protocol, or tilde.town or ssh BBSes?

By your question (and Betteridge's law of headlines): no, as they fail at least (2), (4) and (5).

trashb 30 days ago [–]

> as they fail at least (2), (4) and (5).

Can you explain how you see that they fail 2 and 4?

To me it seems with Gemini, Gopher and BBSes (tilde.town is html so let's skip that) they can serve any type of content they want and you can probably already connect to it and retrieve something readable.

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