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In reality we are not very different. My toolset of choice would be hget and htmlfmt in plan9 which, when combined, just show the plain text versions of pages, or my own shell scripts [1]

[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/maht/rc/httplib.r...

You would have fitted into the plan9 user community in the early 2000s and could still perhaps enjoy it today.

A small subset of us used the name "the Tim Berners-Lee kicking club", in reference to how one man killed the greatest tool ever created by adding a worse one on the top.



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