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Building a gemini server in python
7 years after its invention, I discovered the Gemini protocol.
It’s a kind of “back to first principals” alternative to the web, aimed at providing value to independent content creators away from the noise, bots and trackers of the main web. Imagine the web if HTTP had no cookies, or even any headers or methods apart from GET.
If HTML could not add scripting, styling or fetch further resources (no , or even , tags. No text decoration apart from headings and lists existed. Where TLS did not require a trusted 3rd party Certificate Authority (CA) to approve of every party.
