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Wow, this is a really interesting way to think about web resources. After about two minutes of playing around with this, it gave me a more pleasant experience o

Wow, this is a really interesting way to think about web resources. After about two minutes of playing around with this, it gave me a more pleasant experience of the web than I've had in a while.

anigbrowl 12y ago
This is what it was like when I first got on the Internet (around 1992); there was no web then, instead you FTPed everything and used resources like Gopher, Archie, and Veronica to find documents. I find PigShell interesting from a historic point of view but think it also points to a flaw in how the web currently works, with far too much glue and eye candy, which is a direct result of the ad business model.
- bespoke_engnr 12y ago
  I completely agree. I actually deleted a bunch of my comment before posting it, because I started getting carried away pondering about what the right level of abstraction is for dealing with web resources. At the risk of sounding like one of the semantic-web xml-standards people, it really does make me wonder if all this horrible, incompatible, site-specific frontend crap is just a fad that will give way to tools (like psty) that ignore all that and just deal with the raw semantic content (and HTTP verbs) at a higher level of abstraction. Woah, man. We're like...surfing the Matrix, man.
  - svalorzen 12y ago
    Things like this really make me miss the old Firefox experiment "Ubiquity". It was truly a marvel for the time it was up, and I often wonder why they did discontinue it. You could search websites, send emails, look at maps and much more (you could build your own commands) without ever actually opening a webpage. It had 200.000 users when they shut it down.
    - jacobwcarlson 12y ago
      Wouldn't you just be able to fork it and continue as a hobby project of your own? Who knows, maybe you find other enthusiasts and it becomes a real project again. Mozilla licenses are (I believe and could be wrong), quite lenient about these things.
      - Dewie 12y ago
        This is what I found by looking at its Wikipedia article: https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads

Wow, this is a really interesting way to think about web resources. After about two minutes of playing around with this, it gave me a more pleasant experience of the web than I've had in a while.

anigbrowl 12y ago

This is what it was like when I first got on the Internet (around 1992); there was no web then, instead you FTPed everything and used resources like Gopher, Archie, and Veronica to find documents. I find PigShell interesting from a historic point of view but think it also points to a flaw in how the web currently works, with far too much glue and eye candy, which is a direct result of the ad business model.

bespoke_engnr 12y ago
I completely agree. I actually deleted a bunch of my comment before posting it, because I started getting carried away pondering about what the right level of abstraction is for dealing with web resources. At the risk of sounding like one of the semantic-web xml-standards people, it really does make me wonder if all this horrible, incompatible, site-specific frontend crap is just a fad that will give way to tools (like psty) that ignore all that and just deal with the raw semantic content (and HTTP verbs) at a higher level of abstraction. Woah, man. We're like...surfing the Matrix, man.
- svalorzen 12y ago
  Things like this really make me miss the old Firefox experiment "Ubiquity". It was truly a marvel for the time it was up, and I often wonder why they did discontinue it. You could search websites, send emails, look at maps and much more (you could build your own commands) without ever actually opening a webpage. It had 200.000 users when they shut it down.
  - jacobwcarlson 12y ago
    Wouldn't you just be able to fork it and continue as a hobby project of your own? Who knows, maybe you find other enthusiasts and it becomes a real project again. Mozilla licenses are (I believe and could be wrong), quite lenient about these things.
    - Dewie 12y ago
      This is what I found by looking at its Wikipedia article: https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads https://bitbucket.org/satyr/ubiquity/downloads