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by lucb1e 3734 days ago
The revision history of this page indicates this is an April fool's thing. Besides images, I might actually totally love using Wikipedia from the command line. It would fit in well with my general command line usage. The Tor feature is particularly cool.

(Just to be clear, this post is not a joke. I actually use a terminal all day for various tasks so it might fit in well.)
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wjoe 3734 days ago
It might have been set up as an April Fool's joke, but it is also a real thing that works.
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SilasX 3734 days ago
A lot of viable products came out that way. Gmail, I think.

Edit: Looks like it wasn't intended as a joke, but was initially received that way because of the timing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail#Public_releas...

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CaptSpify 3734 days ago
There are so many sites that I would love to see implement cli interfaces for. HN is one. tldp.org, die.net, etc.

I'm sure many of them have a lynx-useable page, but having a standardized cli interface to these would be super-useful to me as well.

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kps 3734 days ago
No need to reinvent the wheel — topic/conversation sites like HN should just support RFC3977, while things like wikipedia can use RFC1436 (although a MIME typing extension is sorely needed).
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ksherlock 3734 days ago
You could look into links/elinks for a command line browser. Or WikipediaFS (http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net)
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SilasX 3734 days ago
Why not for images too? There are lots of good image-to-ascii art converters.

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