Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[Joe <joko@NoMoreSpam.net.invalid>]

Bill Garber <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> I agree that it's true, we are not the same as those of yesteryear, but
> coming from Atari 8 to PC, back to Apple IIgs and Mac SE, I have to
> also add this. I am totally devoted to Apple II and what it was and is.
> I am working diligently to improve not only the IIgs but the IIc and
> //e and II+. I have 4 projects going at once, 2 of which I work on for
> hours out of each day. 

After spending the last 15 years working with, and trying my darnest to
support, the Apple II...I was just pleased as punch when you showed up on
csa2, filled with enthusiasm for your projects. It was heartening for this
'old-timer' to see.

I agree with Supertimer that computer users these days are different. The
way I think of it is in "generations".

The 1st generation of computer users had to get "under the hood" and learn
everything there was to learn, and if the software didn't exist, they
wrote it.

I'm a 2nd generation computer user, having got my first one in maybe 1980
or 1981. And, what I've done over the years, is "support" the work of the
1st generation. In all those hundreds of articles for the magazines, I
feel like what I really did was translate the techie terminology of the
1st generation into English.

The 3rd generation of computer users have arrived, and for them, using a
computer probably isn't that much different than driving a car or using a
toaster. 

And, I'm not talking about the Apple II, but computers and computer users
in general. Anyone can use one now. 

As the great philospher Bob Dylan once sang, "The first ones now will
later be last, cuz the times they are a changing."

Joe Kohn
http://users.foxvalley.net/~joko