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Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.

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On 4/30/14, 5:35 PM, in article ljs4sp$7r8$1@dont-email.me, "Silver Slimer"
<slvrslmr@lv.c> wrote:

>>> I actually returned to USENET (I was around briefly in 2005 and in the
>>> 90's) because I wanted to be able to discuss with people WITHOUT there
>>> being a load of graphics loading in the background. As it is, USENET is
>>> the only place other than IRC and e-mail where constant background
>>> transfers aren't going on. No matter how fast my Internet connection
>>> gets (I'm at 50Mbit right now), I'll never get used to the idea that
>>> communication is impossible without ads, images and other distractions.
>> 
>> +10000
>> Same here.
>> 
>> We are the oddballs though.
> 
> I don't think that we are. While I was a teenager, while Windows 95 was
> coming out and essentially showing the world that the future of
> computing lay in GUI and that the whole of the Internet was going to be
> accessible through a web browser, I ALREADY longed for a return to the
> protocols I had first used on the net.

Windows 95 came out about a decade after Apple had already put out Mac OS,
which was the first OS to use the GUI to show the full file system, to use
menus as we use them today, to use double-click, to have a trash can, to
have keyboard short cuts for menu items, to include drag and drop, which
allowed direct editing of documents with mouse manipulation, which had
self-redrawing GUI windows, etc. The idea that Windows 95 showed the future
of computing seems an odd thing to say in light of this.:)

In 1995, though, Usenet and Gopher, and other older protocols were still
quite common. What ones are you thinking of?

> I wanted a shell Internet connection, one which forced me to use the CLI with
> Lynx, Pine and gopher simply because it was fast rather than a PPP dial-up
> connection which allowed me to use graphical utilities. Granted, much of it
> had to do with the fact that dial-up connections didn't allow for anything
> other than text to be transferred quickly.

That I could understand - though I was spoiled because I was at a University
with a fast connection.

> Either way, even with a powerful computer as what I use today and a
> 50Mbit connection, using the mouse and keyboard simply doesn't feel as
> "right" as a keyboard alone. You feel a greater deal of control if
> everything the system allows to be executed can be from a CLI with a
> keyboard. It provides for an awful web experience, but it provides for a
> much greater INFORMATIONAL experience. You learn a lot more and use much
> more of your brain when you're not being distracted by images and video.

I would love to see support for the idea that you use more of your brain
when dealing with just text.


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  Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 17:13 -0400
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 14:41 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:30 -0700
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:11 -0400
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:36 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 19:39 -0400
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:42 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:33 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:42 -0400
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:49 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 17:03 -0700
            Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-30 18:18 -0700
              Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored.  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 18:20 -0700
                @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless.  Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2014-04-30 18:44 -0700
                Re: @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless.  Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 19:00 -0700
                Re: @snit, you're 100.0000000000% hopeless. Steve Carroll <fretwizzen@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 20:36 -0700
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 16:45 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2014-04-30 18:23 -0600
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 17:29 -0700
    Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-04-30 16:23 -0700
      Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 19:45 -0400
        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 19:49 -0400
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 16:57 -0700
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 20:07 -0400
            Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. 	flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-30 20:17 -0400
              Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-04-30 20:35 -0400
                Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-04-30 17:45 -0700
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        Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Tattoo Vampire <sitting@this.computer> - 2014-05-01 11:01 +0000
          Re: Snatch Clown Infiltrating Every Thread And Getting Ignored. Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 13:09 +0200
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