I thought I'd add this one here, to make a little break from all those text based programs. If you don't know what an emulator is, it's a programs that makes your computer behave as if it was some other computer. VICE is very good at this, most of the time you really can't tell the different. Most people use those terribly bloated horrors Netscape and Internet Explorer. Another thing I don't like is having to watch all those ugly graphics that people pollute their web pages with, and those stupid Java Applets that are even worse.
Lynx is a text only web browser.
I promise you that you'll love it, if you're the kind of person who browses the Internet to find insteresting information, and not just watch the pictures. As it ignores all graphics, sound clips and Java applets, loading a web page usually goes at least ten times faster than with graphical browsers. It's all highly configurable, and Lynx should be available for most operating systems. Try it - you might like it. Perl This really isn't an interactive program like the others, but a programming language, or the interpreter for a programming language.