ITT: We talk about plain text as a medium for spreading information.
Gopher, Usenet, BBS, etc. all welcome here.
>yfw all these ANSI graphics can only be seen properly now in emulated DOS environments.
Feels bad, man.
Is this the new screenfetch thread?
>>61796208
if you don't know, you better ascii.
>>61796208
Oh, dude, I feel your pain.
I'd love to post on my site in nothing but text files, but people would keep emailing me about line endings not working on Windows.
>>61796208
I recently started using Org mode. Feels good.
>>61802916
So just use \r\n?
>>61803098
Or Microsoft could just implement a second type of line ending when it detects a UTF8 text file rather than an ASCII one?
This is without mentioning the people themselves.
But the overarching point is that I shouldn't have to work so hard for fucking text files.
>>61803160
You don't, just set your text editor to output \r\n instead of \n.
There's literally no reason to use plain-text for this in the [CURRENT YEAR]. HTML files are barely a few bytes bigger (as if that matters these days) and also provides a far more scalable user experience (can be viewed on anything from smartphones to 8K 60" screens), as well as superior formatting and of course hyperlinking.
You're all hipsters.
>>61803365
HTML literally birthed hipsterdom.
>>61803398
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
>>61803405
myspace.com
>>61803427
MySpace came about 15 years after HTML.