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It's interesting how HN crowd are mostly text (and text with low formatting too!) consumers. Compared to other social media, and even old school forums... Are
by debesyla 1y ago
It's interesting how HN crowd are mostly text (and text with low formatting too!) consumers. Compared to other social media, and even old school forums...
Are we mostly l33t developers here, in love with CLI and Vim? Ha!
- bookofjoe 1y agoIn the beginning was the command line
- stavros 1y agoCome on, it's absurd to think that we all follow a stereotype. Some of us use emacs.
- dotancohen 1y agoI don't have eight megs to spare, you insensitive clod! :wq
- qingcharles 1y agoYou monster.
- rietta 1y agoI personally think the plain text howtos and forums of 1996-2002 were way easier to follow than the video links that come up these days.
- wat10000 1y agoThe phrase “old school forums” really does a number on me. Forums are a web thing, and the web is newfangled tech.
- bluGill 1y agoUsenet, bbs. There are a lot of forums that predate the web.
- wat10000 1y agoThey weren’t called that, were they? Usenet was just Usenet, or “news.” BBSes were BBSes. And in context, “forums” was presented opposite plain text, and pre-web stuff tended to be plain text.
- bluGill 1y agoThey were still forums. And there were some graphical usenet clients that were arguably better than any web forum - 35 years latter and much better graphics toolkits exist today. similiarly, not all bbses were text basee, though with modem being so slow that was the default.
- drzaiusx11 1y agongl I grew up using gopher and Usenet before www commercialization. I'll take a plain text file over a video any day...