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Small Internet - Nightfall City

Posted on 2026-08-23

Interesting plain-text protocol

I forgot to post the link to Nighfall City in yesterday's post. You can visit it at the following location:

Nightfall City

But what makes it really interesting is the case where you visit the site straight from your CLI, using:

echo | nc nightfall.city 1900 | less

By only using Unix commands, the site is available without any extra tools. This really is a nice example of the Unix philosophy.

The protocol itself is very basic, and takes a lot of ideas from Gemini.

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