Gemini Glossary

> 22:11 <lukee> "yesterday, whilst abseiling from Capcom over to circumlunar.space, I accidentally dropped my mental karabiner..."

> 22:14 <lukee> THEY have the world wide web. Whereas WE have carnivorous worms that make caves look like the night sky..."

> 22:14 <lukee> spinning their silken threads to catch wary travellers

~ lukee, #gemini@irc.tilde.chat

Gemini is /not/ the web, and it has different idioms. You don't /surf/, you /fly/. You don't visit a /site/, but a /capsule/. This guide aims to clarify what's what in the NQ2. Hang on to your karabiners!

Gemini "users" / "authors"

Where the Web has USERs, Gemini has GEMINAUTs. Sometimes they're also called GEMINEMs, or CREWMATEs, or TRAVELLERs, or just the common AUTHOR. Since geminispace has a much higher author-reader ratio than the common Web, we can get away with that last one.

Other names for geminauts include:

mailing-list marauders

Solderpunk's Utopian Cult

The best way to greet your fellow geminauts is AHOY, CREWMATE. If you're feeling saucy, you can also write: HEYO, GEMINEMS.

Gemini "sites"

Where the web has SITEs, Gemini has CAPSULEs. That's the fairly standard nomenclature, though there are a few others I've found:

gemsite

gemlog - equivalent to "blog"

nilog - see "gemlog", but taking the end of the word "Gemini" -- since "blog" comes from weBLOG.

Geminispace

> 22:34 <lukee> What you think of as the Gemini constellation, is in fact a colony of Arachnocampa luminosa laying a mucous trap for an unsuspecting insect flying too high in search of the moon

You might think that SPACE is enough of a word to evoke the grand myster of Gemini and its peoples, but let me tell you, it's not. We've come up with a lot of ideas for what to call the collection of all Gemini capsules:

NQ2: from the quadrant of sky the Gemini constellation is in

constellation: a collection of stars

geminiverse: like, Universe, but ... you know, Gemini (h/t lukee, who else?!)

Contrubute your own!

Just use TITAN to edit this page, you can get it here:

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use the token 'edwin' :)

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