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Re: Forth at GitHub

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On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 12:54:19 -0800, Chris Curl wrote:

> The problem I have with the new browsers and websites is the bloat. They
> put so much extra stuff in them that I neither need or want, and all I
> get is something that uses more and more of the computer's resources. It
> is no wonder that we now "need" multiple GBs of ram and all the extra
> horsepower ... it's all the extra "bells and whistles" they put in
> there.
> 
I absolutely agree: it's the crude bigger-is-better/infinite-frontier 
Californian mentality.

> Last winter, the Yahoo! folks, in their ultimate wisdom, decided to add
> a snow falling effect to their email inbox page. It was really annoying.
> And to top it off, they didn't include a way to disable it.
> 
> And don't even get me started on all those "news" sites that have all
> the videos that load and play automatically when you browse to the page
> ...

I mostly use lynx/links to 'fetch' [pre-considered files].
Surfing is 'going nowhere and waiting to fall off'; it seems fun in
 the ocean.
Browsing is for dummies.

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Re: Forth at GitHub Chris Curl <ccurl609@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 12:54 -0800
  Re: Forth at GitHub Alfred Singlestone <vitonis@gmail.com> - 2015-11-24 08:09 -0800
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