That sounds like a you problem. This site is one of a dwindling number that work flawlessly with a text-only browser, so if you view it in Links or similar (as I am right now) you can have a pure text experience without any of those pesky non-text technologies getting in the way!

> the "text-only browser"-argument

That's a bit short-minded, don't you think? Or is this some kind of troll meme at this point? Anyway, I don't expect you to have some off-spec working TLS/TCP/IP/ARP/ETH implementation purely based on text, yet alone are connected to the internet via some text-only telegraphy station utilizing those things. Pretty sure your output device (read as: screen) has some sort of analog/digital signaling as well that's not ASCII encoded. There are sure some pesky non-text technologies involved ...

~I'm not sure where you're going with this or how seriously you're taking it~, but if I have to I will dig out a couple of DECwriters and we can continue this discussion as a pure ASCII text conversation. (Just as soon as I find a null modem cable long enough to reach wherever you are.)

Edit: upon some rereading, I get that there was maybe more sarcasm in gp comment than I perceived at the time.

Wasn't that why they called it hyper-text?

In the USA the USPS usually does not fail to deliver a text document, no superior nor inferior technology required.

And they still reach places having no other form of comunication.

If it was not a post card, you would need to open the envelope please.

If you would like to read that kind of text off your screen, you might just need to scan it yourself or find someone who can.

What does the display (or TTS) technology used to read it matter in this discussion?

Obviously you need ways to display text in the physical world, be it a screen or a piece of handwritten paper. It's still text.

> What does the display (or TTS) technology used to read it matter in this discussion?

> Obviously you need ways to display text in the physical world, be it a screen or a piece of handwritten paper. It's still text.

And what about transfer? People keep claiming text is superior for transferring information, yet the majority my network stack or anything involved with the transport isn't text based.

The premise of the whole "text is the best technology" argument is based on cherry picking and strawman arguments anyway.

>The premise of the whole "text is the best technology" argument is based on cherry picking

I agree with that so naturally cherry-pick the thing expected to be the most universal and the last one standing.

Aren't everyone else's network stack usually sending packets of text when it's a plain text file? Even if it is hypertext.