Hypothetical Death Match - E-mail vs. the Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 15, 2006 @01:21PM from the two-techs-enter-one-tech-leaves dept.

netbuzz writes "If you had no choice but to choose, which would you give up: access to e-mail or the Web? Both still exist, just not for you. Read how others are defending their decisions — and how a few just refuse to choose." From the article: "From Stewart Deck: 'The Web has become intertwined into so much that I do and so much that I want to know and learn about that without it I might as well move to a grass hut in Irkutsk. The Web brings me closer to words, thoughts and ideas far beyond my geographical boundaries. I use it for information, education, insight, entertainment, EVERYTHING. ... I certainly enjoy the convenience of e-mail but I think I could put together work-arounds that would hold up reasonably well in its absence.'"

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If I had email or the web... by argent · 2006-09-15 15:06 · Score: 5, Funny

If I had either SMTP or HTTP it would take me no more than a few days to get the other, and that's if I had to write the proxy myself, using nothing but an Apple ][ and a 300 baud modem. In Forth. Without a language card. On a MONOCHROME monitor. Uphill. In the snow. Both ways.

How about Usenet? Do I get NNTP? Gopher? FTP? Telnet? UUCP?

Christ, what a STUPID question.