XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10/29/2025 5:42 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:16:43 -0400, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> I used Lynx mainly for downloading chip datasheets, so I was mostly   
   >> using the download feature on it. Like a poor mans "wget".   
   >   
   > Couldn’t you afford wget?!?   
   >   
      
   I think wget was invented some time after Lynx came out.   
      
   All I can remember now, is that I was pissed I was sitting   
   at a rather expensive computer, and I couldn't have a knife   
   fork and spoon and had to eat with my hands all the time.   
   The desktop was a desert on my UNIX box.   
      
   I used to use xvnews on that box, for USENET (reading only,   
   no posting). I used to read sunmanagers on it. The USENET   
   program was *unthreaded*, and you haven't lived until you   
   have received a pile of postings every day... in seeming   
   random order and unsorted. The other beauty of the newsreader I used,   
   was that it had to be compiled from source, and the program   
   had a static constant for the number of newsgroups it could   
   handle at any one time. When it was compiled for 5000 newsgroups   
   in the .newsrc, I had to recompile it and set the static constant   
   to 10000 newsgroups. That's what I mean about the knife fork and   
   spoon bit -- everything you did on the platform required pissing   
   around.   
      
   Today, we worry about the color of our titlebar. In the old   
   days, your main concern was that the program didn't segfault :-)   
   On average, we seem to have progressed a bit.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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