[vox] Talk idea: "back to the terminal"

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Mon Apr 3 22:41:04 PDT 2017


I see no objections... should I just do it? ;)

-bill1

On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:32:35AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> As I've been futzing around getting on the Internet with my little
> 8-bit Atari, with the help of Linux, it occurs to me that others
> out here may find some of these 'old-school command-line' tools
> useful for their own purposes.
> 
> For example, today I just found out there's an IRC gateway to
> Twitter and other social networks (as well as, unsurprisingly,
> instant messenger protocols).  And a week or so ago, I discovered
> a stream-based text terminal interface to Twitter.
> 
> I'd be happy to talk about (and _possibly_ demonstrate) some
> of these.  I actually use some of this stuff in my day-to-day
> life, not just when I'm pretending it's 1993 and I'm BBS'ing
> at 19.2Kbps.  For example, Mutt is my email client of choice.
> (Gmail is that thing I use to test HTML emails at work, before
> sending them out to users. ;) )
> 
> Would there be any interest?
> 
> And while I'm here, is anyone interested in speaking
> (either instead, in April... or down the road)?  We're in need
> to guest speakers again! :)
> 
> -- 
> -bill!
> Sent from my computer

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-bill!
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