Spring '83

Welcome! This is a draft protocol that I believe might open up some interesting new possibilities on the internet. If you are just discovering it, I recommend reading this narrative description. Don't miss my notes on a summer spent operating the protocol with other people, either.

This is speculative software intended to invite consideration and imagination; it doesn't have any "users", only co-investigators.

This project has been quiet for a while, and will remain so for a while longer -- but I'm thinking hard about ways to refine and remix these ideas, and I'll return with some new offerings sometime in 2023.

Current draft:

• Protocol specification

Previous drafts:

• 20220619
• 20220609

Here are the implementations I know about currently:

• The Kingswood Palimpsest, a client
• rdmurphy/spring-board-element, a web component
• rpj/spring83, in JavaScript
• royragsdale/s83, in Go
• motevets/springboard, in Go (running here)
• michael-lazar/lets-dance, in Python (with some great notes)
• pteichman/ahoy, in Go
• cellu_cc/so83-gpu, on GitLab, in OpenCL 🤯
• JohnB/spring83, a client

If you've implemented a client, server, or utility, at any level of completeness, and you would like me to list it here, let me know.

This work is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.