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!

  • 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.

  • stavros 14 hours ago

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

  • 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.

    • bluGill 11 hours ago

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

      • 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.