# Testing...

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [March 23, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679 "2002-03-23T05:44:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679/1 "2002-03-23T05:44:58Z")

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I’m creating this thread in Links, a console browser for Linux. So far it’s working pretty well, and if it handles forms properly, then I’m sold–I’m giving up my GUI forever, to live in black, grey and white simplicity (well, pseudo-simplicity: console mode looks Fisher-Price on a 19" monitor, so I’m in vesa framebuffer mode, running the console at 1280x1024).

Dopers! Shed your GUI chains! Go console!

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### Author: ![hansel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6bbea6/32.png) [@hansel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hansel)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679/2 "2002-03-23T05:46:30Z")

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It works. Bye bye Windows! Bye bye, Quake! Hello, NetHack.

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### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2002, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679/3 "2002-03-24T21:49:24Z")

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> It works. Bye bye Windows! Bye bye, Quake! Hello, NetHack.

You know, there’s actually a mod for Quake that lets you run it in a terminal window, with ASCII graphics. The only reason I don’t have it myself is that I don’t have a computer adequate to play Quake in the first place.

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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679/4 "2002-03-25T14:41:21Z")

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[http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105242&perpage=50&pagenumber=1&postid=1932096](http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105242&perpage=50&pagenumber=1&postid=1932096)

[http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105242&postid=1932096](http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105242&postid=1932096)

[http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1932096](http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1932096)

[http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/postid=1932096](http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/postid=1932096)

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### Author: ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing/99679/5 "2002-03-25T14:44:24Z")

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No? Well, let me try:

[http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/postings.php?s=&postid=1932096](http://65.201.198.9:80/sdmb/postings.php?s=&postid=1932096)