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Below you will find a collection of links that have... very little if anything to do with MUCKs, though most, like Mink, center around text-based computing. These are sites that the Mink staff finds interesting, worthy, fun, or some combination of these. Happy surfing.

A Dinosaur's Garden

A delightfully composed text-only site with material on DOS, older computers, and ethics & issues in computing.

A Unix Trifesto: Three Essays that Capture the Spirit of Unix:

• In the Beginning was the Command Line
  A downloadable copy of Neal Stephenson's terrific essay on computer interfaces and their significance. (It's a wild read... a lot more fun that it sounds like it would be from this summary.)

• The Elements of Style: UNIX as Literature
  An essay exploring the relationship between Unix and literacy.

• How to Become a Hacker
  Eric Raymond's well known FAQ on how to enter the computing elite.

Star Wars Asciimation

Star Wars (yes, the movie) rendered in ASCII text (yes, really).

textfiles.com

An intriguing site devoted to preserving the history of the 1980's BBS era in computing, while teaching a bit about HTML along the way.

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