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##Screenshot / Code Snippet
![Column 80][2]

##About

Browsing the existing Stack Exchange family of websites was *OK* in a text-based browser, but when you're stuck in a Linux shell with no way out and no other computers around and you just **know** you saw the answer on Server&nbsp;Fault last week, this is how you can find it easily.

It assumes you already have existing knowledge of the SE family of sites in order to navigate.

###License

Public Domain. Feel free to do with it what you will. [Grab it here][4] (note: This is the old v1 API. I have not packaged v2 yet).

###Access

<strike>http://www.column80.com (note: looks like rubbish in modern browsers, Firefox, Chrome, Internet&nbsp;Explorer, etc. It has got to be viewed in Lynx to get the full effect).</strike> offline as of late 2019 due to virtually no traffic over the past 10 years.

###Platform

Optimised for Lynx. This sounded pretty niche when I made it, [but it looks like it might already have been some use to some users][6]!

##Contact

Leave some feedback in this question.

##Code

I haven't done any programming in about five years, so it was also a way for me refresh my skills. It uses the [PHPStack][7] by [Thomas McDonald][8]. <sub><s>If you *really* want the source and you promise not to make (public) fun of me, then I'd be more than happy to share.</s></sub> I've cleaned up the code a bit, and incorporated some suggestions from the public, so I feel comfortable releasing the code. [Grab it here][9].

- (10th Jun 2010) now updated to incorporate the unannounced API changes
- (25th Jun 2010) changed front page to retrieve data from StackAuth, and changed URL format to prepare for URL Rewriting ([using stack.PHP][10])
- (11th Jul 2010) now updated to work with the v1.0 API (the list of [Stack&nbsp;Apps][11] sites is looking healthy!)
- (9th May 2014) updated the site to use the v2 of the API. Removed some never-used features such as tag search and user profiles, as I'm pretty short on time.


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/I4LkC.png
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/dKwEZ.png
  [3]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/40353/stack-overflow-glossary-dictionary-of-commonly-used-terms/40354#40354
  [4]: http://www.column80.com/Column80v1.0.zip
  [5]: http://www.column80.com/
  [6]: http://hack.org/lists/mosig/msg02320.html
  [7]: https://stackapps.com/questions/319
  [8]: https://stackapps.com/users/1031/thomas-mcdonald
  [9]: http://www.column80.com/Column80.zip
  [10]: https://stackapps.com/questions/826/stack-php-clean-easy-to-use-wrapper-for-php
  [11]: https://stackapps.com/about