The New Browser Wars

[matthewr]

I still can’t imagine why anyone would want to use anything other than an iPad to browse the internet.

Because for any non-trivial computer task a mouse and keyboard is unbeatable as a user interface.

I love my iPad but strictly for YouTube, podcasts and choosing what to watch on my TV.

 

[Tony L]

I’ve become pretty good at ”typing” on the iPad. Everything other than real server management stuff I do here is done on the iPad; all posts, my record listings etc. I only fire up the proper computer for accounts (as I’ve always got a month’s worth to do as I’m lazy as hell, and the Model M’s numeric keypad is such a time saver) and the aforementioned server admin as iPadOS is still crap at basic file-handling.

By saying I’m pretty good at “typing”, I mean for a 60-year old tapping with one finger on the screen. I’ll never be able to type like a 15 year old girl on a smartphone. I am amazed how fast some kids are at typing with their thumbs these days, it’s a real skill! I’ve never been fast at typing, but I can go about the speed I can think what I want to write, which is not fast, but it doesn’t irritate me at all.

 

[vacuum_tubes]

My memory is 14.4, and early Windows 3.1 era. I’d tried text bulletin boards via a horrendous Amstrad 9.6 baud modem someone had given me plugged in my second hand IBM PS/2 30 8086 DOS machine (20mb HDD!)

We still use them, the clients are IBM ps/2 56 486 machines running DOS with Novell shell and the servers are Netfinity 5000 running DOS with Novell Netware SFT3 on a 10base2 network.