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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] FYI: Internet Old Farts Club
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:15:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202201291715.20THFpLW2308457@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMnNGiB7QjZCJveV6oXP_e6w-hx_6r58Tr6jCfr0cJsVLya7A@mail.gmail.com>

Andy Kosela writes:
> On 1/29/22, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> >
> > If we need another place for old farts to hang out, there are many.
> > I like groups.io, it's free for most stuff, it's super easy to be
> > a moderator, I moderate 12 groups there and am a member of a bunch
> > more.  What they call groups, we would call an email list with a
> > bunch of knobs that help keep things sane.
>
> I can speak only for myself, but I love that TUHS/COFF mailing lists
> are still _the real_ mailing lists managed the old school way.  I hate
> all those modern web 2.0 technologies with extremely bloated js stacks
> which you can only use if you have the latest version of Chrome.  I am
> still using old Atari DOS, Amiga Workbench, MS-DOS/Win9x/WinXP and of
> course Linux/FreeBSD.
>
> This is probably one of the last places on the Internet that is still
> preserving one of its core ideas in the 80s/90s -- plain text
> communication.  It has been slowly dying in the last 15 years.  Text
> based Internet of the 80s and 90s has slowly been replaced by binary
> protocols and image based interaction with a computer.
>
> I still just love using text based protocols and command line and read
> it on a real CRT monitor in full screen text mode.  We lost something
> when the world moved on.
>
> So please do not go anywhere....
>
> --Andy

I completely agree with you.  Maybe one of the problems is the
book-burners opposed to CRT.  Don't know if any of you have
ever run across this guy: http://unixsheikh.com/index.html
Seems to be a younger-ish person who seems to get it.

Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-27  0:36 Rich Morin
2022-01-27  1:55 ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2022-01-29  1:59   ` Charles Anthony
2022-01-29  2:24     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2022-01-29  2:36       ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-29  8:48         ` Andy Kosela
2022-01-29 17:15           ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2022-01-29 17:20           ` Seth J. Morabito
2022-02-01  2:12           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01  2:21             ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01  2:23             ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-01  2:31               ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-01  2:51               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-02-01 18:19               ` Clem Cole
2022-02-01 18:24                 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2022-02-01 12:45             ` Blake McBride
2022-01-29 17:20         ` Blake McBride
2022-01-30  1:20         ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-30  2:10           ` Will Senn
2022-01-27  2:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-01-27  2:40   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-27 21:11 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-01-27  2:52 Norman Wilson
2022-01-27 23:20 ` Nemo Nusquam

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