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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 716 days ago
"We did a lot with text based Unix browsers then, you could view source, run from a terminal, and never crash"

Can still do this today. I have been steady text-only user since 1993.

Even easier today than in 1994 since so much of the www is delivered as JSON.

Graphical browsers are for online shopping and other consumerist behaviour.

Text-only is still the best for consuming information.