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amoroso, 5 days ago to retrocomputing

In this interview Charles Simonyi told the origin of the acronym WYSIWYG in the context of his work at Xerox PARC on the Bravo word processor, see page 21:

https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2015/06/102702232-05-01-acc.pdf#page=21

Xerox Star ads such as this might have been inspired by the anecdote Simonyi told:

https://interface-experience.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IE-Star-2.jpg

From here:

https://interface-experience.org/objects/xerox-star-8010-information-system/

By the way, it's an interesting 2008 interview Grady Booch did with Simonyi for a Computer History Museum oral history project.

#WYSIWYG #retrocomputing #xerox

mattof, 1 month ago to emacs

New version of rcirc-sqlite: rcirc logging in SQLite

• New custom option: rcirc-sqlite-register
  Register to store messages (default: register `r').

• Quickly change the view of the logs
  When exploring your logs, change the view with just one key:

• Show all the logs of a channel for a single day or two days.
• Show all the logs of a channel from a specific nick for a single day.

• Collect individual messages with just one key:

• Select and copy a message nicely formatted to the kill-ring.
• Collect one or more messages in a register.

rcirc is a default, simple IRC client in Emacs

rcirc-sqlite is available as a package in Elpa

#rcirc #RcircSqlite #emacs #irc

https://codeberg.org/mattof/rcirc-sqlite

mattof, 1 month ago to emacs

New version of rcirc-sqlite: rcirc logging in SQLite

• Easier to narrow the queries to the last week, the last month, of the
  last two or three months, or select a time range with the org mode
  date picker.
• New command to direct request the logs of a specific nick.

rcirc is a default, simple IRC client in Emacs

rcirc-sqlite is available as a package in Elpa

#rcirc #rcirc-sqlite #emacs #irc

https://codeberg.org/mattof/rcirc-sqlite

mattof, 1 month ago to random

New phlog post: Tooting with mastodon.el

#phloggersgarage #100daystooffload

gopher://box.matto.nl/0/tooting-with-mastodonel.txt

xtaran, 4 months ago to random

@mattof, @linm @SDF: I just discovered by chance that the #10kBClub (formerly available under the now no more resolving 10kbclub.com domain) has been closed and is no more maintained: https://github.com/spcask/10kbclub/commit/2e47bf4d2e60897b9de4cdc549cc5cf9e75ea5b2

The git repo at https://github.com/spcask/10kbclub (made a backup copy) and what's in the Wayback Machine (latest copy at https://web.archive.org/web/20231208000921/https://10kbclub.com/) is all that's left.

amoroso, 5 months ago to usenet

The sad state of my quest for a Usenet NNTP GUI client for Linux.

Pan is awesome but the binaries of my Debian Bullseye based distro, Crostini, are ancient and buggy. The Pan project distributes no .deb or other packages. Building from source requires recent versions of tools not in Bullseye.

Very few other GUI options available. Even fewer with .deb or other binaries.

#usenet #nntp #linux