Gemini is a protocol similar to HTTP, in that it’s used for transmitting (mostly) text in (usually) a markup language. However, one of the primary goals of Gemini is simplicity. Requests are always a single TLS/TCP connection with the route, and a correct response looks like 20 text/gemini\n\rhello world\n. Additionally, Gemini uses a language called “Gemtext” as its markup language. It’s kind of like Markdown, but even simpler. Every line can only contain a single type of data, so fo...
