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Pleasant Surprises

There are a few things I've enjoyed a lot since creating an account on SDF and starting with gopher.

Using programs I haven't touched since undergrad

It has been a delight to send and receive emails to other SDFers and gophers thru Pine. It was the default mail client on our shared SunOS system during my undergraduate, and it still feels great.

I found Unix intimidating when I first started with it in school, and I appreciated the occasional tool that had a simple interface that I could figure out without reading a man page. Pine was one of these, and I still get a cozy feeling using it. (Thanks to everyone who has emailed me so far! It makes me happy every time.)

I've also been using lynx a fair amount. I haven't touched it in almost 20 years, and it still feels as great as ever.

Discovering the Lagrange client

I know Lagrange was primarily built for Gemini, but it's a beautiful gopher client. It just feels great. This client alone has made me interested in looking at Gemini.

Being on a shared Unix system

Every Unix-like system I've used over the past two decades have been single-user workstations. Joining a shared Unix system the size of SDF is such a blast. I'm especially looking forward to checking out BBOARD more.