From: anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi   
      
   Retrograde  writes:   
      
   > Doing everything from the terminal just isn’t viable for me, mostly   
   because I   
   > didn’t grow up with it.   
      
   I guess I was lucky, I was exposed to a bewildering variety of computers   
   as I grew up in the 80s. There was the myriad of home computers, a lot   
   of Commodores and Speccys but also Sharps and MSXs and whatever. Some   
   CP/M machines at school, there were also some early Windows PCs there,   
   then the GUIs like Atari ST and Amiga's Workbench, sometimes Macs.   
      
   90s, I went to the University. They had MS-DOS PCs and text terminals   
   connected to Unix machines. Some Sun and HP Unix workstations too but   
   those were for more advanced students only for which I got access   
   later. Funny contrast, in '91 I got a summer job in a university   
   department which was all Macs. Looking back, it seems so radical that I   
   had dual displays and a "huge" 17" monitor to work on way back   
   then. Even if the other display was the minimal one integrated to the   
   boxy Mac.   
      
   In the meantime, my home computing went from a Commodore 64 to MS-DOS   
   PC, then dual booting that with OS/2 and some Linux experiments. Games   
   went to Windows so that MS-DOS became Windows 98 and XP and 7 and   
   10. Late 90s Linux experiments became permanent when I learned of Debian   
   Stable. OS/2 disappeared when picking supported hardware for it got too   
   tiresome.   
      
   Work, started mid-90s with Sun Unix workstations until I was kicked to   
   Office land. That was an awful time and when I escaped, it's been much   
   the same, Windows PC on the desk, Unix and later Linux server   
   somewhere. Oh, one job actually provided a Linux workstation under the   
   desk in addition to a Windows laptop but that was one time.   
      
   But to the topic, text only in 2024? I don't think so. Web browsing and   
   email, just no. Sure I just used Lynx on a Linux server at work to check   
   the proxy settings are correct and I do use mutt to teach misses to my   
   spam filter but that's pretty much it. For me, the email I get is HTML   
   with pictures from commercial sources. Very little personal   
   correspondence over email these days and mailing lists I get via NNTP   
   and gmane.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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