Well, another April Fools’ Day gone. My favorite was Vet Times, which reported… “Tech breakthrough translates cat calls, meows and purrs”. The runner up was the report that French scientists have cross-bred and tweaked banana plants… to grow meaty-tasting sausages instead of bananas. And solar panels that work in the dark, though I think that one’s been done before.

The favourite “not an April Fools’ Day joke” is Project Gemini which revives Gopher, and has built a lightweight texty altWeb with ascii-art and Atom RSS on top. There’s a Windows browser for it and a search engine [gemini://geminispace.info/documentation/searching]. Homepages are ‘capsules’, blogs are ‘gemlogs’. No pictures allowed, except ascii-art [gemini://dgold.eu/17.gmi]. You could probably do dancing hamsters, if you scrolled a page of that stuff fast enough.

Sadly WordPress can’t handle gemini: links, and thus they’re here given [in the WordPress 'code' tags]. But once you have the Gemini browser installed and are at a live gemini: protocol link, your regular Web browser should ask if you always want the Gemini browser to open links of that type. The browser can also handle gopher: links. Bring on the dancing gophers…