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> hacker circles didn't always have this 'progressive' luddite mentality

Richard Stallman has his email printed out on paper for him to read, and he only connects to the internet by using wget to fetch web pages and then has them printed off.



You're probably thinking about Donald Knuth, not Stallman.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html


Stallman does similar, just without the printing step, and he checks his email entirely within emacs.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html




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