Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

#retroComputing #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #links #lynx #BitchX

@marathon

Yes, let's hope!

I started using it instead of #BitchX back in the day because I wanted a GUI based #IRC client sometimes. Back then it was X-Chat, or maybe #XChat, I believe.

I still like #Irssi which is what eventually took over the cli, but nowadays really love #WeChat. In fact, over the years I've tried a lot of #GUI based IRC clients, on #Linux and #Windows, and recall one that was very beautiful, but bloaty, and always, always, ended up going back to #HexChat :)

The way he retired himself though, I think it just may encourage a spark of developers forking and continuing its saga.

#tallship #FOSS

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screen was for a long time my favorite command-line program - before smartphones were really a thing, used putty at work to ssh to my home machine and could switch between mutt, lynx and most importantly BitchX.

#commandLine #linux #BitchX #IRC