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What do you think about the Gemini protocol?
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It may not be particularly useful, but I welcome a challenge to the current status quo. The Internet is a powerful resource, and we're still building on top of the first protocol that worked back in 1991 to navigate it. Gemini isn't something I could see having any mainstream appeal, but it's absolutely worth experimenting with alternatives to the World Wide Web. Having more than one functional open standard could help revolutionize the Internet in novel new ways.
I think you're thinking backward. Internet is what it is because a single protocole unified it. Without it, you'd have island working with only one browser each, some would eventually die and with them large parts of Internet would disappear.
Internet works on unified protocoles. Everything that challenged this model is bound to fail. That's why javascript is so successful eventhough it's so shitty as a language.
Evolution can only be iterative.