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!

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rietta 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I 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.

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wat10000 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The phrase “old school forums” really does a number on me. Forums are a web thing, and the web is newfangled tech.

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bluGill 3 days ago | parent [-]

Usenet, bbs. There are a lot of forums that predate the web.

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wat10000 3 days ago | parent [-]

They 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 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		They 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.

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stavros 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Come on, it's absurd to think that we all follow a stereotype. Some of us use emacs.

	▲	dotancohen 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't have eight megs to spare, you insensitive clod! :wq
	▲	qingcharles 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You monster.

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bookofjoe 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the beginning was the command line

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drzaiusx11 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

ngl I grew up using gopher and Usenet before www commercialization. I'll take a plain text file over a video any day...