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| Welcome to the wonderful retro/alternative future of Gemini space! | Welcome to the wonderful retro/alternative future of Gemini space! |
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| Here's the [[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi|FAQ on Gemini]]. TL;DR, Gemini is an alternate internet protocol to either [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol| HTTP]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher| Gopher]]. It's being touted as a modern alternative to Gopher, to bring back a lightweight, text-centric interweb but with some of the security features of modern day. As described in the FAQ: | Here's the [[https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi|FAQ on Gemini]]. TL;DR, Gemini is an alternate internet protocol to either [[wp>wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol| HTTP]] or [[wp>Gopher_(protocol)|Gopher]]. It's being touted as a modern alternative to Gopher, to bring back a lightweight, text-centric interweb but with some of the security features of modern day. As described in the FAQ: |
| >You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised just a little"... | >You may think of Gemini as "the web, stripped right back to its essence" or as "Gopher, souped up and modernised just a little"... |
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| In this tutorial when text looks like ''this'', this means it's a command you can run in your shell, either from the cluster, or if you've logged into the meta array. | In this tutorial when text looks like ''this'', this means it's a command you can run in your shell, either from the cluster, or if you've logged into the meta array. |
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| | ===== Viewing Gemini Pages ===== |
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| | To start with, there are many ways to view your page and others in Geminispace. Here are the easiest ways you can [[accessing web spaces#Gemini| view gemini pages from the SDF shell]] |
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| ===== Getting Started ===== | ===== Getting Started ===== |
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| Now that you have copied the text out into 'nano', you need to save the file. To do this, hold down the 'CTRL' key on your keyboard and whilst pressing that, press the letter 'x', and respond "yes" to the request to save. You've just written your first //gemtext// file. It's a very simple markup language compared to HTML, as you can see. | Now that you have copied the text out into 'nano', you need to save the file. To do this, hold down the 'CTRL' key on your keyboard and whilst pressing that, press the letter 'x', and respond "yes" to the request to save. You've just written your first //gemtext// file. It's a very simple markup language compared to HTML, as you can see. |
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| | **NOTE: file permissions:** to be able to see this file with a browser, you need to change the permissions. at the command line after saving your file, just enter ''chmod go+r index.gmi''. This will grant read permissions on that particular file to everyone else besides you. |
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| Now, just open a Gemini browser and navigate to either: | Now, just open a Gemini browser and navigate to either: |
| the top index. Sites are listed by most recent activity first and will | the top index. Sites are listed by most recent activity first and will |
| include a title if you created a heading (e.g.,'##My First Page!') on the first line of your ''index.gmi'' | include a title if you created a heading (e.g.,'##My First Page!') on the first line of your ''index.gmi'' |
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| ==== Viewing Your Gemini Homepage ==== | |
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| You can use either of these Gemini browsers on the cluster or in the MetaArray: | |
| * //bombadillo//: at shell type ''bombadillo <nowiki>gemini://sdf.org/{yourusername}/</nowiki>'' (this would go to your cluster page) or | |
| * //amfora//: at shell type ''amfora <nowiki>gemini://gem.sdf.org/{yourusername}/</nowiki>'' (this would go to your [[metaarray]] page) | |
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| Additionally, on the metaarray, you can use ''diohsc'' | |
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| If you want to get into Gemini more, there are shell and graphical clients available for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and IOS, you can look for them here: //<nowiki>gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/software/</nowiki>// | |
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