[GEM Development] GEM and the Internet?

[lyricalnanoha]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Owen Rudge wrote:

>> I'm not much of a programmer, but I just was experimenting with getting a
>> couple WatTCP (Watt-32 actually) tools working on QEMU, and I was musing
>> about the possibility of various Internet tools (such as telnet, ftp and
>> irc) for GEM.  It seems feasible and would be principally limited by the
>> ability to code such...
>
> GEMWeb was the closest GEM has ever been to the Internet, I think. It's
> still available from:
>
>  http://www.geocities.com/heinz_rath/
>
> Certainly though, it should be possible to use WatTCP (or Watt-32 using
> DJGPP) to get on the Internet with GEM. :-)

IRC is thankfully a much simpler system than the combination of HTTP and 
HTML :)

I know the IRC protocol, but not much about networking or GEM. :(

-uso.