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carlosfranke.net is served by HtmGem, a web server for Gemini documents. The Gemini protocol is part of the small internet, a movement for minimal networking and against the commercial bloat of the World Wide Web. Gemini pages are made from plain text and hyperlinks lines. HtmGem translates the Gemini syntax ("GemText") into simple HTML.
Until early 2026, carlosfranke.net was based on the much older Gopher protocol instead of Gemini, using the gopher-http server mgod.
mgod: a mini gopher server for inetd
The fonts used in page titles are "ANSI Shadow" and "Calvin S". They originate from an old DOS application called "TheDraw" and were conserved by Patrick Gillespie.
Interactive demo of these and other ASCII-art fonts
The favicon of this website shows random noise. It is regenerated in regular intervals using the Imagemagick command:
convert -size 16x16 xc:black +noise Random -monochrome favicon.ico