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> Some inventions seem genuinely prescient, like a collection of animated proto-emoji stickers. Some are impractical but fascinating, like a “town” computing in
by mietek 9y ago
> Some inventions seem genuinely prescient, like a collection of animated proto-emoji stickers. Some are impractical but fascinating, like a “town” computing interface with buildings for apps.
I wonder how many other have never heard of Apple’s eWorld.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld
- cromwellian 9y agoI wonder how many never heard of Quantum Link’s Habitat from 1986.
- byproxy 9y agoAlso, the Packard Bell Navigator. I had so much fun in that interface when I was a kid.
- jhbadger 9y agoThese sorts of interfaces were very much of the atmosphere of the mid 1990s. Another somewhat better known one (although known as a flop) was Microsoft Bob. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
- LeoPanthera 9y agoA friend of mine recently developed robert.js, a library for manipulating Bob's datafiles. https://github.com/Treeki/robert.js https://github.com/Treeki/robert.js For example, here are the Bob rooms, rendered in your browser: https://wuffs.org/bob/room.html https://wuffs.org/bob/room.html