Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web.."

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/sfearthquakes_o.html

by akkartik • 19 years ago

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jwecker• 19 years ago

top -- reddit.com

yah I'm a dork

phil• 19 years ago

wouldn't top be alexa.com (etc.), or internet storm center? ;)

dfranke2• 19 years ago

I want fdisk for the internet.

mynameishere• 19 years ago

"pine became Gmail"

Yeah. Google invented online email. Seriously, does google pay for fanboyism by the pound or what? Geez.

ecuzzillo• 19 years ago

Having not lived the days of yore, I'm guessing that there were inferior mail clients that came before pine that are now long-forgotten because pine was better. Gmail is a similarly superior online email; it may not be the first, but it's the best, and that's all anyone remembers.

dfranke2• 19 years ago

Well, elm came before pine, and the mailreader I use now, mutt, is elm-descended.

precipice• 19 years ago

Yes, ecuzzillo said exactly what I meant. I also remember reading that Gmail consciously adopted Pine keyboard shortcuts (though I may have that wrong), which is why I made the direct link. Gmail seems like a very UNIX-y web mail client, where Hotmail, say, was not.

-Marc Hedlund

Hedlund's startup ideas: "..find an old UNIX command that hasn't yet been implemented on the web.."

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