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Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web.."
- jwecker 20y agotop -- reddit.com yah I'm a dork
- phil 20y agowouldn't top be alexa.com (etc.), or internet storm center? ;)
- dfranke 20y agoI want fdisk for the internet.
- mynameishere 20y ago"pine became Gmail" Yeah. Google invented online email. Seriously, does google pay for fanboyism by the pound or what? Geez.
- ecuzzillo 20y agoHaving not lived the days of yore, I'm guessing that there were inferior mail clients that came before pine that are now long-forgotten because pine was better. Gmail is a similarly superior online email; it may not be the first, but it's the best, and that's all anyone remembers.
- dfranke 20y agoWell, elm came before pine, and the mailreader I use now, mutt, is elm-descended.
- precipice 20y agoYes, ecuzzillo said exactly what I meant. I also remember reading that Gmail consciously adopted Pine keyboard shortcuts (though I may have that wrong), which is why I made the direct link. Gmail seems like a very UNIX-y web mail client, where Hotmail, say, was not. -Marc Hedlund
- Elfan 20y agoA Google employee and Pine contributer (Ryan Barrett) compared the two and gave his thoughts on the matter: http://snarfed.org/space/gmail%20vs%20pine