Post #3806008

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I disagree on the last part because it was very much a product of its time: text was about the only thing computers could handle back then. The input was a typewriter, the output was printout. Today, even text isn’t just text. It’s text in some encoding (hopefully Unicode, but still not guaranteed). And it may have additional markup (HTML, RTF, or something else). It may want to refer to other out-of-line resources, such as images and a unidirectional channel is not great for this.