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Found a write-up from 2017 in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-growing-old-online/524577/ https://www.theatlantic.com/
by sbilstein 7y ago
Found a write-up from 2017 in The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-growing-old-online/524577/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/echo-...
> In the intervening decades, Echo has never changed its primitive interface. To navigate within it, you can’t just click on links, but have to type in Echo-specific commands: j cen; l a m; sh 123. You don’t access it in your browser, but through a telnet client, a program that allows you to access the command line interface of another computer. It doesn’t support images or sound, much less video. It doesn’t even have colors. It’s text-only, and even editing text is a time-consuming pain in the ass.