Richard Stallman frequents our lab-wide mailing list (csail-related@lists.csail.mit.edu) and once explained how he browses the web:
"My access to web pages is by sending mail to a server which does the equivalent of wget and mails them back to me. (Once I get the page, I can view it with various browsers.) I transfer mail a couple of times a day and usually have no net connection otherwise." (11/8/2009)
It's also interesting to think about what programming and software would really look like in Smallman's world. Clearly quite a bit different than the world most of us frequent.
"My access to web pages is by sending mail to a server which does the equivalent of wget and mails them back to me. (Once I get the page, I can view it with various browsers.) I transfer mail a couple of times a day and usually have no net connection otherwise." (11/8/2009)
A little extreme, but an interesting hack.