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GUIs, images, video, are all a mistake. Computers should have nothing more than text terminals, as Ken & Ritchie intended. That way the world would be a bette
by 323 4y ago
GUIs, images, video, are all a mistake.
Computers should have nothing more than text terminals, as Ken & Ritchie intended.
That way the world would be a better place without TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.
- the-printer 4y agoYou know what…I sort of agree with you. You’re on to something.
- frou_dh 4y ago> Computers should have nothing more than text terminals, as Ken & Ritchie intended. Odd statement because that same Bell Labs crew created Plan 9 as unapologetically bitmapped GUI, since even 30 years ago they already considered TTYs to be a smelly anachronism.