> my personal take on geek-luddism is that "more technology" isn't
> automatically good. i believe in sticking with technology long enough
> to assimilate it, work the bugs out of it, and come up with something
> that's really *useful*.. not in trading this season's batch of random
> botches and blunders for a new set every six months.
Agreed.
> there are whole universes of potential technology buried in the spoil
> heaps of our current information consumerism. HTML is packed with
> low-level hooks for some really cool and useful stuff: the <head>
> section was originally supposed to support popup summaries, so you could
> check the preview before actually loading a page; there's a whole
Would be handy to display that while the rest of the page is being
downloaded! More so when we had 9600 baud modems...
> family of relationships assigned among links which allow similar support
> for timeliness and coordination between linked pages.. but nobody's
> implementing them because they're not as sexy as multiplanar graphics
> with to-the-pixel placement.
Yes!
> i see the act of saying "screw this", tossing NS or IE, and surfing with
> lynx, as an example of engine-breaking. ditto for anyone who
I do most of my surfing with Lynx. (Actually, some of the time my
computer does its surfing with lynx, then tells me the good stuff. I will
be doing a lot more of this type of surfing as I improve my search
engine.)
> maliciously surfs with image-loading off, thus robbing content providers
> of their banner-ad impressions. i dream of discovering the low-level
> kink in SMTP or sendmail that can be used to make spammers mailbomb each
> other.
People are using random and not so random e-mail addresses on pages
as spam-bait.
> i think we need more of that kind of thing. therefore, i'm a
> geek-luddite.
I don't classify myself.
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