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Reminds me of rip graphics, a format which briefly existed as a way to add vector graphics to bulletin board systems. It was useable over a telnet or dialup mod

Reminds me of rip graphics, a format which briefly existed as a way to add vector graphics to bulletin board systems. It was useable over a telnet or dialup modem connection if you had a terminal that supported the rip escape codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_Imaging_Protocol

swills 5y ago
There was also NeWS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS which had the interesting idea of using PostScript to drive the display.
- ck45 5y ago
  Which was then also used in another successor (name wise) , W => X, S => T: NeXT