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If the patent really is 17 years old, one might be able to forgive the USPTO for letting this one get by, considering nothing like it existed at the time (Gophe
by lr 16y ago
If the patent really is 17 years old, one might be able to forgive the USPTO for letting this one get by, considering nothing like it existed at the time (Gopher was probably the closest thing). Now, on the other hand, I fully agree with you that the patent system is in need of very serious reform.
- jonhendry 16y agoHypercard?
- rwmj 16y agoGood old multimedia CDs too.
- jonhendry 16y agoI'm not sure if those predated 1990. From what I can see, in the US multimedia CDs hit the US around 1991.
- stan_rogers 16y agoWell, Macromedia Director with Lingo (the software used to produce most of them) was released in '88. (Director is older, but had limited interactivity authoring capability before Lingo.) It definitely had image rollover effects when I was working with it in '89. CD drives may not have been ubiquitous at the time, but deployment via stacks of floppies was going on.