On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Hummm, this is interesting. I was speaking with Wes at the last PLUG lab > and I pointed out that I'd been on the internet since 1986 when I was > using Jughead (?) Gopher (?) and pulling FTP files off of the web. And in > many ways the web was just as fast back then because we didn't have Flash, > Java etc. clogging the bandwith. As soon as I learn some command line > functions I may go exclusively to text based browsers to circumvent these > issues.
I, too, used archie and veronica to find and download ftp files before the Web was invented. I am aware of three text-based web browsers: links, lynx, and emacs (the text editor that has everything, including the kitchen sink). Lynx is useful with an application's help pages are all in .html. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
