BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Re: How Arthur C Clark pr
De:       Mike Powell
Data:     Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:18:59 -0500
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>  MS> Return to 1mhz computing?

>  Text-only is the way to go. I remember polling email over dialup/POP,
>  and it worked just fine. Early web pages, also fine. Once companies got
>  online, downloading an unoptimized gif file with an image map took a
>  while.

As an aside, if you now try to use a web browser like links to access
google.com, instead of getting a text version you get an error message
about needing to update your browser.

This is with using the gui version of links2 on an up-to-date debian box.

duckduckgo.com still works just fine.

There could be some text web browsers that have found a way around that,
but it shows how some companies try to discourage this.

Mike

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