The basis of it all is ... text!                    rev 25 february 2016
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It's all text

Computer programs are written as text.

All the video, music, that goes through the wire, displays on your screen,
comes through your haedphones, is data in the form of characters.

Open up a .jpg file or a .doc file in NotePad++ and what will you see?
Characters!


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Why do i love text?

Everyone can access it. Everyone can use it.
Everyone can search it, read it, change it.

No special program is needed. The technology won't
change and make it unable to be used.

	Text is the most accessible mediums available. I mean accessible in the widest
	possible way. It's more accessible to people with visual disabilities and
	it's more accessible across more technologies. Most important though is that
	text makes the information more accessible to you. You can easily search text
	for specific information (as can Google) ...  You can easily index it and build 
	references. We have simple markup tools (HTML) specifically designed to make 
	information accessible. We can bookmark it, often specific sections. ...
	
	Because text is accessible, it tends to be more organic. Text is easier to
	change, share and to converse about. People can leave comments and easily
	correct text. Text can also be easily shared, and used as the foundation
	for a new discussion. In fact, tools such as Wiki or GitHub can make this
	a truly collaborative effort.

	-- Karl Seguin, http://openmymind.net/2011/4/12/Video-is-a-poor-medium-for-learning-to-program/

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/06/sms-text-messages-20th-birthday
   What's bigger and far more important than Facebook? Hint: it's very
   low-tech and doesn't need a smartphone or even an internet connection.
   SMS – text messaging. Two-thirds of the world's population – that's
   over 4 billion people – have access to it because that's the number of
   people who have mobile phones, and even the cheapest, clunkiest handset
   can send SMS messages. It's had a much bigger impact on people's lives
   than anything dreamed up in Silicon Valley.


  https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
    Text is the most socially useful communication technology. It works well
    in 1:1, 1:N, and M:N modes. It can be indexed and searched efficiently,
    even by hand. It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at
    variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered,
    corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty
    editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting,
    reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic. The
    breadth, scale and depth of ways people use text is unmatched by anything.
        -- graydon 2, 13 october 2014



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