Date: 2025-06-16

The NEX

Because I was tired.
Tired of pretending.

I wanted less.
Not retro.
Not hip.
Just less.

I tried gopher.
It lied.
It says menu, I say text.

I stripped it all.
Down to one thing.
Lines.

Each line is truth or a link.
That's it.
It's honest.

=> is the only signal.
Everything else is the message.

No MIME.
No selectors.
No trees.
No types.
No pretending.

You want a file?
Connect.
Read.
Disconnect.

Nothing parsed.
Nothing guessed.
Nothing to explain.

Truth doesn't need a protocol.
Only a port.
And a will.

NEX is not a protocol.
It's a refusal.
Of ceremony.
Of abstraction.
Of control.

It gives one thing.
The only thing that matters.

Truth.