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Did you know that even Lynx is properly considered a GUI? It's a text-mode GUI, but a GUI nonetheless.

Edit: To figure out where you're coming from: do you consider text editors like vim, nano, and pico to be GUIs or CLIs? Why do you hold this opinion?



Ed is a visual line editor, and if that's a GUI then we can stop talking about PARC and just agree that Brainfuck is as good as Python via Turing Completeness while we're at it.

If it's the turtles all the way down, any blinking light becomes a GUI, for what is a pixel?


I never brought up ed. You're not a good troll, you try too hard.


He gets the content using wget and then posts directly using POST...




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