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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by elinchrome on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:32AM (#7803893)
Please explain your "typeable" concern. I've been using IRC since the dawn of time and I could always copy and paste. Not to mention that links are recognized and you can click them.
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by rikkus on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:30AM (#7804955)
Copy and paste didn't work too well on serial terminals. How far back was this 'dawn of time'?
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by elinchrome on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:03PM (#7807831)
Mid nineties.
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by FroshKiller on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:43AM (#7803924)
I'm going to hazard a guess that you're a Windows or Mac user.
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by sp332 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:57AM (#7803969)
Well you can paste into irssi too.
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by npsimons on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:10PM (#7805179)
Middle-click much?
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by smtddr on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:17AM (#7804265)
i̶r̶s̶s̶i̶, or rather the terminal it's running in according to the person replying my comment, lets you click on links to open a browser too.
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Re:Link shorteners hurt the user experience and destroy the Web by bluefinity on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @09:37AM (#7804338)
That's the terminal, not irssi.
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