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Re:Gemini is a little gem by gwern on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:17PM (#30091120)
The 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).

Re:Gemini is a little gem by zepto on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:22PM (#30091191)
That’s pretty much gopher already.