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Ah, Digitiser, I used to read you every day. Occasionally Teletext would do multiple choice adventures, complete with ASCII art. And very little in the modern w
by thom 4y ago
Ah, Digitiser, I used to read you every day. Occasionally Teletext would do multiple choice adventures, complete with ASCII art. And very little in the modern world can capture the excitement and terror of waiting for the football scores to turn the page and show if there was a new score in the Everton game.
- 0898 4y agoI hung out in the #digi channel around 1997-1999. Recently-ish (2016 I think) I logged back in out of curiosity. Some of the same names were still there, chatting away.
- jl6 4y agoWorth mentioning alt.digitiser on Usenet where the unaware would turn up looking for help with their digitisers[0]. Fun times on IRC with some now-internet-famous people who I won’t dox - I know you’re all here. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_tablet