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A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the webhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730408>If you a looking for a 1:1 clone for the early web, you will probably be disappointed. Gemini takes way more design hints from Gopher then it ever will from the web. Gopher (widely considered a predecessor to the web) is built on the idea of text only documents. Gemini expands on this idea by offering basic formatting, and fixing drawbacks unaccounted for in the original Gopher protocol.