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mmaundertoday at 9:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Read the 100 word intro and still don't know what this is. Left.


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Jtsummerstoday at 9:31 PM

It's an alternative to HTTP and HTML (primarily). With the protocol sitting, in terms of complexity, somewhere around the early HTTP/1 protocol and gopher, and the geminitext format being suited for a variety of displays and more text oriented rather than for interactive or multimedia use.

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