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       I (almost accidentally!) started designing a new lightweight,
       text-centric internet protocol heavily inspired by Gopher in a series
       of posts in my phlog.  Many more people proved to be much more
       interested in this than I expected, and so the project - now known as
       Project Gemini - eventually moved to a separate parallel phlog and
       then to its own server.
       
       Nowadays the official place to get up-to-date information on the
       project is at:
   DIR geminiprotocol.net
       (accessible not just via gopher but also HTTPS and, naturally, Gemini
       itself!)
       
       There you'll find plenty of links into the Gemini community, including
       the mailing list where most discussion/development now happens.
       
       Below you will find, maintained for posterity, all the posts from that
       "parallel phlog" of the early days where things developed at a
       lightning pace, along with links to the posts in my regular phlog
       which started the whole mess.  They're probably not the quickest or
       easiest way to get acquainted with Gemini from scratch, but once
       you've got your bearings, if you're really interested this is a great
       way to get some insight into what drove some of the major design
       decisions.
       
       
  TEXT (2019-08-17) Announcing GeGoBi, a Gemini-Gopher bi-hoster
  TEXT (2019-08-16) Gemini mailing list
  TEXT (2019-08-16) New server
  TEXT (2019-08-13) Announcing Agena, a Gemini-to-Gopher proxy
  TEXT (2019-08-11) Spec updates
  TEXT (2019-08-11) New server
  TEXT (2019-08-09) Request formats, virtual hosting and proxying
  TEXT (2019-08-08) New servers
  TEXT (2019-08-08) Status codes semi-finalised
  TEXT (2019-07-29) Two proposed status schemes
  TEXT (2019-07-25) Inputs and client certificates
  TEXT (2019-07-21) Link syntax finalised
  TEXT (2019-07-10) Link syntax, stagnation
  TEXT (2019-07-03) Quick update on link syntax
  TEXT (2019-06-27) Status codes
  TEXT (2019-06-25) Gemini maps 3
  TEXT (2019-06-24) Assorted small notes
  TEXT (2019-06-24) Gemini in 100 lines
  TEXT (2019-06-24) Slowing down
  TEXT (2019-06-24) Gemini maps 2
  TEXT (2019-06-23) Gemini maps
  TEXT (2019-06-22) Cold blanketry
  TEXT (2019-06-22) Gemini in the wild, AV-98
  TEXT (2019-06-21) Redirection
  TEXT (2019-06-21) TLS overhead
  TEXT (2019-06-21) Featherweight text protocols
       
       
  TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt III
  TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt II
  TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt I
  TEXT (2019-06-12) The soul of gopher
  TEXT (2019-04-07) More on gopher and crypto
  TEXT (2019-03-31) Why gopher needs crypto
  TEXT (2019-03-03) Pondering what's inbetween gopher and the web