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by Russell Beattie.
Original Post: Loud Noises, Lynx and Mobility
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So I'm posting this from Lynx right now on a Debian box that I'm setting up at work because my computer is dying quickly.
The drive started making funny noises this afternoon, then the entire computer shutdown
unexpectedly on me and I knew something was wrong. So I spent the evening
backing up my laptop's important files (who ever thunk that a CD would seem so
small?) and now I've grabbed what was an internal Linux server and am
setting it up as a development box.
While I'm waiting, I decided to flip to another screen (alt-F2) and
use Lynx to browse the web. First I checked my comments, and noticed that
XHTML standards look awfully nice on Lynx. Then I figured I'd log into
Bloglines.com/mobile and check out my feeds. I normally do that on my phone
but since the formatting is made to be super-simple, it worked perfectly on Lynx as well.
And now? Now I'm posting about all this as the 600MB or so of X-Servers and Gnome download in the background. God
bless Debian (apt-get install gnome). Well, I shouldn't say that until I have a working system, but it
seems to going well so far.
I guess there's some sort of parallel I could make between text-only browsing via
Lynx (which I'm doing on my server, actually, via SSH) and the ability of smart phones...
I guess the link is just that it's amazing how much you can do on the web
with little-to-no real display power. I'm reading posts, I'm creating links
I'm doing it all via a text screen reminiscent of DOS 1.0. I've seen browsers and
servers before written for the CLI (which could've been run in 1985 had we
gotten a clue then) but it really does show you the power of simple text.
No *wonder* SMS is so popular. ;-)
-Russ
P.S. Hmm... now I'm in a bind. Usually I select-all and copy the post before submitting it
just in case there's a browser hickup. I guess I'm just hoping this works...
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