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

My hunt for clients went to #BitchX but the project is abandoned? The last sources date from a decade ago 2014

So I went for irssi, a gorgeous terminal irc client

But then a gfx client is what I also want so I went with halloy, which needs cfg for the tiny font it loads!

#OpenSource #Linux #SocialMedia #programming

@4xsample @GelatDeTramussos Jo primer vaig descobrir #BitchX … Però vaig voler començar a fer-li scripting i #BitchX era més complicat per aquests temes i llavors vaig descobrir #Irssi

@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

@erikaheidi: All of them. 😎 More or less at least:

* I preferred #picocom over #minicom. And for quite a while I only use GNU #Screen for all my #serial connection needs. 😎

* I preferred #ircII over #bitchX. Later switched to #irssi.

* I used the #pon and #poff scripts instead of #pppd directly. Also used #wvdial occasionally

* I used #licq as #ICQ client.

And from those programs which I used in production, I'd say that either #xf86conf or icq is the one I haven't used for the longest time.

@claudiom your post gave me the opportunity to have a look at discord which I've heard of before but never looked at... well well well... first though was that it reminded me the very first time I ran #bitchx (~1998).. "wow..it's fancy!" not too sure what that's for... looks like an over-complicated IRC-like :flan_shrug: But I refuse to join your #oldfart group 😉