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I don’t know if this was a thing in America, but in USSR in the 70s and 80s it was very popular to play chess-by-correspondence. You would literally snail-mail

I don’t know if this was a thing in America, but in USSR in the 70s and 80s it was very popular to play chess-by-correspondence. You would literally snail-mail letters back-and-forth with your move. Games would last months or years. It added an extra challenge to chess because by the time you got a response, you might have forgotten what strategy you had had. This project is basically Linux-by-correspondence. The challenge is here too. By the time the command produces an output, you might have forgotten why you ran it.

noufalibrahim 2y ago
There was something called Agora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(web_browser)) which was sort of an email/http proxy. You could browse the web via. email and set "GET", "POST" etc. commands. It was my first exposure to the web. It sounds very similar to what you mentioned.
- asdefghyk 2y ago
  There was also a system where a person could email a request for a webpage to a certain email address and the web page would be returned by email. Existed in late 1980s? I think or maybe early 1990s?
  - noufalibrahim 2y ago
    That's what Agora did. I used it for a while using pine. I still remember the address by heart. It was agora@dna.affrc.go.jp. I guess you never forget your first time : - )
- password4321 2y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387879#30390269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387879#30390269 > Richard Stallman browses the web via email. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
  - unit149 2y ago
    M-xing https sites on Emacs, altering the format of text queried, is a means of inferential consumption of news. Parallel strains of information and thought, inhabiting the same site may be recollected if the medium is altered.
    - anthk 2y ago
      RMS could just use eww under Emacs.
johnklos 2y ago
I installed Windows 95 on an Amiga 3000 with a 25 MHz m68030 via floppy to see if DMF formatted disks would work and to play around. By the time it finished, I had forgotten what I wanted to try out.
unit149 2y ago
Reorganizing the combined correspondence on an excel spreadsheet through an arbitrary numbering system years later, and experiencing the Spinozan "pang of bad conscience." Did you write the PIC12F1840 HEX file in 4004 machine code for your PIC-based one-chip sound player?

noufalibrahim 2y ago

There was something called Agora (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agora_(web_browser)) which was sort of an email/http proxy. You could browse the web via. email and set "GET", "POST" etc. commands. It was my first exposure to the web. It sounds very similar to what you mentioned.

asdefghyk 2y ago
There was also a system where a person could email a request for a webpage to a certain email address and the web page would be returned by email. Existed in late 1980s? I think or maybe early 1990s?
- noufalibrahim 2y ago
  That's what Agora did. I used it for a while using pine. I still remember the address by heart. It was agora@dna.affrc.go.jp. I guess you never forget your first time : - )
password4321 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387879#30390269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387879#30390269 > Richard Stallman browses the web via email. https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
- unit149 2y ago
  M-xing https sites on Emacs, altering the format of text queried, is a means of inferential consumption of news. Parallel strains of information and thought, inhabiting the same site may be recollected if the medium is altered.
  - anthk 2y ago
    RMS could just use eww under Emacs.

johnklos 2y ago

I installed Windows 95 on an Amiga 3000 with a 25 MHz m68030 via floppy to see if DMF formatted disks would work and to play around. By the time it finished, I had forgotten what I wanted to try out.

unit149 2y ago

Reorganizing the combined correspondence on an excel spreadsheet through an arbitrary numbering system years later, and experiencing the Spinozan "pang of bad conscience." Did you write the PIC12F1840 HEX file in 4004 machine code for your PIC-based one-chip sound player?