From 92bd4424db18b10ec28653ba6c20efe22ef1637b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: t Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:28:42 -0600 Subject: missed some formatting in an old post --- weblog/gopher-item-types-a-gemini-miss.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'weblog') diff --git a/weblog/gopher-item-types-a-gemini-miss.md b/weblog/gopher-item-types-a-gemini-miss.md index 4f76e2f..74aae4f 100644 --- a/weblog/gopher-item-types-a-gemini-miss.md +++ b/weblog/gopher-item-types-a-gemini-miss.md @@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ post_date: 2023-09-04 Hardly new, I know - a geminaut questions a design decision in the protocol. -I came to the small web a little backwards. I discovered Gemini via the tildeverse a little over a year ago, quickly created this ~/public_gemini directory and got posting, responding to others' posts, and finding their responses on [Cosmos](gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/index.gmi). +I came to the small web a little backwards. I discovered Gemini via the tildeverse a little over a year ago, quickly created this `~/public_gemini` directory and got posting, responding to others' posts, and finding their responses on [Cosmos](gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/index.gmi). It was only after reading about [Gemini's philosophy and creation back-story](gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/history/) that I started to learn about Gopher more deeply. Now, having written a few Gemini and Gopher servers and spent some time in both protocols, I question one design choice in Gemini being strictly _more powerful_ than gopher: the lack of anything performing the role of item types. -Don't get me wrong: gopher's item types are a pain for implementors and a source of confusion for the unintiated ("what's with that magical /1/... path prefix?"). They certainly don't pass muster as a modern, simple, clean design. BUT one of the real joys of navigating around is the little indicators you get of what you're about to get yourself into with a link: +Don't get me wrong: gopher's item types are a pain for implementors and a source of confusion for the unintiated ("what's with that magical `/1/` path prefix?"). They certainly don't pass muster as a modern, simple, clean design. BUT one of the real joys of navigating around is the little indicators you get of what you're about to get yourself into with a link: ```Sample output from gopher.floodgap.com as rendered in Bombadillo --- Getting started with Gopher ------------------------------- -- cgit v1.3