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submitted 9 months ago by callmepk to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Web browsers: elinks, based on links, which I'm pretty sure was a play on words on lynx, which is a play on words on "links" on a web page.

Then there's email. There's mahogany and balsa and mulberry, which are in-jokes referring to pine, which was a joke referring to elm, which stood for ELectronic Mail. Pine has been forked to alpine, in an entirely different play on words.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pine has been forked to Alpine

Wonder if it runs on Alpine the Linux distro.

In other news, I never knew pine's genetic code still lives on; but I miss elm more. Can we do uw-imap too? Dovecot annoys me.

[–] beaiouns 5 points 9 months ago

I've run alpine on alpine, it works just fine