“For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer.”

— Richard Stallman

OpenBSD mailing list (15 December 2007) http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/
2000s
Context: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have no net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a daemon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

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