Spring ’83
Welcome! This is a draft protocol intended to suggest new ways of relating online. 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 spec is now a historical artifact, but/and I hope it might prompt you to think about new ways of relating online.
Most recent 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.
