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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: On manuals and the Intertubes not working
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:07:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jdij7i8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvsf12yrwr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org

On Thursday,  7 Mar 2024 at 10:43, Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> And so does IRC, indeed.  

Yes, sorry: big omission on my part! 

> There are even some successor candidates, such as Matrix and
> ActivityPub.

Although one could argue that these are trying to replicate things we
already have and doing so not so well, especially ActivityPub when
compared with NNTP... (IMO, of course).

> the internet can still be used to consult research articles, to
> replace phone lines, and to log into your home server.

You mean there's more to the Internet than that?  I must have missed it.

;-)

-- 
Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2024-02-28) on Debian 12.2




  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-07 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-07  7:30 [QUESTION] Add conditional indicator to `mode-line-misc-info' not working Christopher M. Miles
2024-03-07 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-03-07 15:13   ` On manuals and the Intertubes [was: Add conditional indicator to `mode-line-misc-info'] " tomas
2024-03-07 15:34     ` Eric S Fraga
2024-03-07 15:43       ` [OFFTOPIC] Re: On manuals and the Intertubes " Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-03-07 17:07         ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2024-03-07 22:56           ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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