1 Feb
2022
1 Feb
'22
8:21 a.m.
On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
The solution to bloat has, sadly, tended to be "throw more CPU/RAM/hard
drive at it". That's one big reason WordPerfect 5.0 on a 486 is faster
than a modern word processor on a recent i7.
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IRC. ;)
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On 1/29/22 1:48 AM, Andy Kosela wrote:
As do I.
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.
Usenet is still a thing that I use daily. 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 too
dislike what the Web 2.0 world has turned into.
I believe that it's possible for web pages to by dynamic via AJAX without all
the bloat. Sadly this isn't done. 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Internet of the 80s and 90s has slowly been replaced by binary protocols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.
Usenet. I'm not planing on discontinuing using mailing
lists or Usenet any time soon.
Despite the fact that they have migrated from unencrypted to encrypted
communications. Even my MUA / NUA is using encrypted connections to the
servers. But /my/ /personal/ /interaction/ with my MUA / NUA hasn't changed.
I still use the same software, in many cases, I've used since the 1990s.
-uso.