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by ablanco 2152 days ago
A little offtopic, but interesting nontheless

Surfraw (Shell Users Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web) is a free public domain POSIX-compliant (i.e. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines. It was created in July 2000 by Julian Assange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw

1 comments

Your link is a fascinating bit of history and perspective.

Thanks for including this here.