5555624 15 hours ago

You're not. I'll only click on a video, here, after checking the comments

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  • debesyla 14 hours ago

    It's interesting how HN crowd are mostly text (and text with low formatting too!) consumers. Compared to other social media, and even old school forums...

    Are we mostly l33t developers here, in love with CLI and Vim? Ha!

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    • rietta 13 hours ago

      I personally think the plain text howtos and forums of 1996-2002 were way easier to follow than the video links that come up these days.

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    • stavros 14 hours ago

      Come on, it's absurd to think that we all follow a stereotype. Some of us use emacs.

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    • bookofjoe 14 hours ago

      In the beginning was the command line

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    • wat10000 13 hours ago

      The phrase “old school forums” really does a number on me. Forums are a web thing, and the web is newfangled tech.

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      • bluGill 11 hours ago

        Usenet, bbs. There are a lot of forums that predate the web.

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        • wat10000 10 hours ago

          They weren’t called that, were they? Usenet was just Usenet, or “news.” BBSes were BBSes.

          And in context, “forums” was presented opposite plain text, and pre-web stuff tended to be plain text.

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teaearlgraycold 9 hours ago

Why’s that?

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  • bookofjoe 7 hours ago

    Same reason I never click on YouTube links from friends: I find it annoying to have to wait to find out if I'm interested or not. On the other hand, I'll click on any non-video link someone sends me to have a look.

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