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QC and iE 11
jwhouk:
He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
Barmymoo:
I use IE sometimes when websites don't work in Firefox (sidenote: web developers, you are not worthy of the title if you cannot make your website compatible for ALL browsers) and it's fine.
Zebediah:
Oh God, Lynx! I remember that one. Particularly, back around 1992 I remember seeing all the [IMAGE] links that Lynx used, and thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to automatically download the images and display them alongside the text, instead of having to download them separately and load them in a different program?"
I did not follow up on that thought. A guy named Andreesen apparently had the same thought, and did follow up on it.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 08:58 ---He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
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I still use Lynx. Okay, it's only when X isn't working and I have to get to some Nvidia drivers, but I like having it there when needed.
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 07:04 ---
What do you mean, like yesterday? It hasn't ended yet, has it?
(I've had a computer since 1982, but wasn't online until 1990, and didn't really start using the net until 1993, just a few months before the September that never ended ...)
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I think it's pretty safe to say that it either ended or exploded. Usenet is pretty much dead, aside from specialised groups like the Monastery, and most ISPs don't even have feeds. Ye gawds, I miss alt.gothic more than anything.
Sidhekin:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 10:19 ---
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 30 Jul 2014, 08:58 ---He said, while posting to the boards via Lynx.
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I still use Lynx. Okay, it's only when X isn't working and I have to get to some Nvidia drivers, but I like having it there when needed.
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For browsing (or just downloading something), I prefer w3m, if it's available. (It rarely is, unless I'm maintaining the system myself.) For a while, Links was superior to Lynx, but Lynx caught up with it, and may be the best all-text renderer. Unless the situation changed again, while I was looking elsewhere.
To me, the nostalgia trigger is ...
... Mosaic! 8-)
--- Quote from: hedgie on 30 Jul 2014, 10:19 ---
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 30 Jul 2014, 07:04 ---
What do you mean, like yesterday? It hasn't ended yet, has it?
(I've had a computer since 1982, but wasn't online until 1990, and didn't really start using the net until 1993, just a few months before the September that never ended ...)
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I think it's pretty safe to say that it either ended or exploded. Usenet is pretty much dead, aside from specialised groups like the Monastery, and most ISPs don't even have feeds. Ye gawds, I miss alt.gothic more than anything.
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I don't think Neverending September is nntp-only. Certainly netiquette is not. As long as there are mailing lists and forums, there'll be September.
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