Re: You Can Use the Internet the Old-School Unixy Way With Shell Accounts

On 2025-03-02, Paul W. Schleck <[email protected]> wrote:
> "One reason to sign up for a shell account is that shell providers often
> have friendly user communities. Many providers have their own IRC,
> Usenet, or bulletin boards where users can exchange messages. The users
> tend to be other Linux and Unix enthusiasts. These spaces are just fun
> to hang out in."
>
> https://www.howtogeek.com/use-the-internet-the-old-school-unixy-way-with-shell-accounts/
>

I use gopher, irc (and bitlbee.org servers to comment on Mastodon/Jabber) and lots of other tools
like awk+gnuplot... daily. My main environment it's OpenBSD, cwm, and a xterm.
sfeed works great to read news. Mutt and slrn, for the rest.

gopher://magical.fish it's trully... magical

And it rocks, no matter being remote or local.