So I think Gemini protocol and gopher are neat and all, but just a little lacking in features (gem not having images or message boards for example). Is there anything else thats slightly more like the web in ~04 ish? Muddying the waters with another protocol is probably a bad idea but something like this could be cool…
Some Gemini clients can render images inline. Lagrange does so if you click an image link on a capsule. and there are discussion forums. bbs.geminispace.org immediately came to me, but while searching for that site I found Station .
The creator of Gemini also made a web server that might help you do what you’re looking for, or if you want it to be more period accurate to 2004, I am also aware of some projects of maybe that kind of nature.
I guess it just depends on what you want.