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by spynxic 3187 days ago
For the sake of creativity, suppose browsers were the wrong direction to take for web exploration. What do we do now?

The same idea may be applied to an operating system's ability to allow a user to operate on their machine.

Edit: It would be useful to consider why the need for a universal interface to the internet was originally sought out.

2 comments

Douglas Crockford would say The Seif Project: http://seif.place/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQWRoLf7bns

Telnet? That's the alternative I can remember.
Gopher!