Post 40 has a good explanation
“Post 40 has a good explanation”
Right. Thank you. I should read farther in to the thread before posting. (What a concept, right?)
Morning... Hope you don’t mind me pinging Pollard also. He is always interested in playing with these things and hadn’t caught up with him about this one yet. :)
Yes MayflowerMadam, it is old school but with a few convenient minimal modern advantages such as displaying images in the client on the site rather than needing to download the file to render them, the ability to stream music, and it has search engines for the Gemini space. Things we didn’t have back when that are convenient.
But basically it is like the self served “Rings” Chickensoup speaks of. But with the ability to be searched with an engine which was a problem back then, you had to get lucky enough to run across a link in one of the other rings, or find a directory full of similar links. And like ring sites, these sites are light and minimalistic.
The pages are simple with some text and links. The links go to another page on that server, to a page on another Gemini server, to a download, or forward out to the normal HTTP net and open your default HTTP browser to go there. So you can still link out to HTTP sites from the Gemini pages if you choose to.
The pages are all pretty much like this Gemini site page I am linking. Except folks can customize the fonts, text color, and background color as they like. The fancier ones have old school ASCII artwork. lol
I am using Linux and know the Lagrange browser works excellent on Linux, I have not installed or used it on windows yet. But it is a simple setup.exe install. So if you install it for windows64 from the below link, you may want to backup your system first, or at least go and set a fresh “restore point” in your “go back” tool. But the developer “Skyjake” has a BBS in Gemini and is there daily with friendly free support.
So if you want to share what OS version you are using I can personally ask him for sure if it has been tested on your OS and if there are any known issues before you install it if you like? He may not have played with Win 11 yet, I don’t know, but I can double check with him before you give it a shot. But he takes pride in how well built his Lagrange browser is and operates. So his work is trustworthy.
And it is indeed cool.
https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/releases
Note for Pollard and anyone else on linux, Lagrange can be found in the Ubuntu flavor repository as a flatpack, or the install directions are here on the Git page.
https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange