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In the beginning, before there was an official Project Gemini mailing list or even a Project Gemini capsule, absolutely all of the information about the project was hosted in Gopherspace. In order to make the project's history more accessible, some of that early content has now been migrated in Geminispace, and links into Gophespace are provided for stuff which hasn't.
Before the "Gemini" name had been coined, before it was even clear that an actual real life protocol people actually used was going to be the result, Solderpunk wrote a series of phlog posts musing about Gopher, the web, what was drawing people from one to the other, and what interesting possibilities might exist in between. These posts provide some informative background for Project Gemini, but aren't technically a part of it. The links below are Gopher links to posts in Solderpunk's personal phlog, and you'll need a Gopher client to read them:
Once Project Gemini started in earnest, Solderpunk set up a separate, dedicated side-phlog for discussion and communication. These posts definitely are a part of Project Gemini, so they have been minimally translated to gemtext and rehosted here at the official project capsule. They offer some insight into the very early evolution of the protocol. Note that many of these posts include links to Gopher posts made by other people, so you'll still need a Gopher client to get a complete picture.
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