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This article made me remember, that in the early 90s there was a service to retrieve any webpage by email
by asdefghyk 2y ago
This article made me remember, that in the early 90s there was a service to retrieve any webpage by email
- dredmorbius 2y agoRMS still largely browses in this way: I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git>) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. <https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html>