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Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s
- sleighboy 15y agoThat scroll speed needs to slow waaayyyy down. BBSing with a 14.4k modem was rarely that fast. If it was in the 80's, that'd probably make the common speed in the area of 2400 or 9600.
- tallanvor 15y agoAnd how many people would have had a color monitor back then?
- KC8ZKF 15y agoMany people had color monitors in the 1980s. For values of "monitors" that include television sets. The Commodore 64 and Vic 20 were color, as was the Tandy CoCo. Lots of others as well.
- aidenn0 15y agoI opted for a hercules monochrome that was higher resolution than the color alternatives.
- sixothree 15y agoFor PC connecting to monitor, CGA was introduced in 1981. I'd say by 1985, it was a very popular choice. Before that, many home computers that connected to television were already color.
- DanBC 15y agoEGA was introduced in 1984 too.
- jonny_eh 15y agoThe Apple II was colour, and that thing came out in the late 70s.
- peteri 15y agoFor home machines most of them would have been colour by 1982-3. My first paid for job was Turbo Pascal on a CGA PC in 1984 so it was pretty wide spread.
- jaysonelliot 15y agoI had (still have, actually) an Amdek Color-I Plus on my Apple //e. It was relatively common at the time.
- Natsu 15y agoI had an Apple ][ GS back then. Actually, I still have an 8088 with a color monitor and such, but I haven't got it set up, so I'm not even sure if it still works.
- bcl 15y agoThe training sequence sounds like 56k to me ;)
- Sami_Lehtinen 15y agoYes, it did. Did you forget that there were two different 56k standards and those did sound different when negotiating. 56k Flex versus v.90. Negotiation sounded really different depending from standard.
- orbitingpluto 15y agoAnyone else type Ctrl-A H in an attempt to leave the page?
- spydum 15y agoI was really hoping to see a response to +++ATH0 No dice.
- rollypolly 15y agoThe screeching sound gave me goosebumps! :)
- shabble 15y agoMy first thought was "It doesn't sound quite right", but then I remembered I was expecting the v90/56K handshake[1] with the BU-BONG BONG BONG near the end. [1] http://808hi.com/audio/conexantwm.mp3 http://808hi.com/audio/conexantwm.mp3
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- StCroix 15y agoAh that brings back memories
- wickedchicken 15y agoAs an aside, both Twitter and Google+ are browsable from lynx. Facebook? not so much: http://www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts http://www.facebook.com/DunkinDonuts https://plus.google.com/117936580045594333068/posts https://plus.google.com/117936580045594333068/posts https://twitter.com/dunkindonuts https://twitter.com/dunkindonuts
- cydonian_monk 15y agoAbout a year ago the opposite was true - Facebook was almost fully functional over lynx (or links2 in my case), while Twitter was... less so. (And obviously G+ wasn't.)
- dhimes 15y agoInteresting. A few years back it wouldn't work in Lynx at all- but they returned an error explaining that and included the message "Keep it real."
- cydonian_monk 15y agoI must've caught a window where it worked. I recall it was always the mobile version of Facebook, and it couldn't detect the browser. May be one of the differences between lynx and links2.
- Tipzntrix 15y agoThis is a fine piece of work. I like all the ASCII art too!
- ggchappell 15y agoFYI: The ASCII art was produced by figlet, using the font Georgia11, which was designed by Richard Sabey.
- jrsmith1279 15y agoThe ASCII art caught my eye too. I can't help but think about all of the fun I had with ANSI art using TheDraw. Ahh, the good 'ol days!
- troels 15y agoIt wouldn't make new connection sounds while searching though.
- cs702 15y agoThis is not just a work of art, but also a labor of love. It deserves to become a museum installation.
- thekungfuman 15y agoAPI quota exceeded!
- drhodes 15y agoyep, they thought of everything.
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- mtkd 15y agoI could see RMS using that all the time.
- chimeracoder 15y agoActually, he apparently uses an email interface to wget: http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html ... I'm not sure if that supports or contradicts your point....
- gpmcadam 15y agoThat's not what he says. I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally do not look at web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. He's saying, much like wget (in as much as it is used to fetch a page and return the result as text) he sends an email asking for a web page which then responds with the page contents. Now, as to why he does this, I have no idea. Thoughts anyone?
- jacquesm 15y agoMy guess is that he has added a price to following a link in order to reduce his information consumption because he realizes that without a cost there is the risk of gorging on things that he actually doesn't have the time for. By artificially increasing the amount of effort required for reading a page (adding a resistance, such as a relatively complicated procedure for fetching the page) the hidden cost becomes much more visible.
- beagle3 15y agoIIRC, it is part information diet, part privacy filter - I would guess his web<->email gateway cannot disclose his location even by mistake (the way many VPN setups do - e.g. on my iPhone, if the VPN cOnnection times out while I am on a page with Ajax and lots of images, some requests go through the VPN and some directly. And an adversary can disrupt the VPN connection in various ways to cause that.)
- jrsmith1279 15y agoWhat an awesome time in computing history. I sometimes find myself judging other IT guys by whether or not they have ever used a BBS.
- bdunbar 15y agoI used a BBS. My wife built and sysoped one. And yes, that's how we met.
- akira2501 15y agoNot an uncommon story, I suspect.. but, Roger?
- bdunbar 15y agoYou lost me. What?
- Nate75Sanders 15y agoHe's indicating that the story may not be an uncommon one, but gambling, anyway, that you may be someone named Roger who he knows has the same story.
- bdunbar 15y agoSee ... this is what happens when one is raised by wolves. One has no idea about common social conventions. Wolves ... or raised in Oklahoma in the pre-internet era. Same thing, really.
- lurkinggrue 15y agoHow about if they RAN a BBS.
- dgabriel 15y agoMy mom would not shell out for a second phone line. :(
- johngalt 15y agoWow, good enough to give me flashbacks to my old days as SysOp. Needs more door games. LORD and Tradewars anyone?
- wazoox 15y agoYou certainly should try "Digital, a love story": http://scoutshonour.com/digital/ http://scoutshonour.com/digital/
- joeyh 15y agoAn excellent game. Along with telehack (http://telehack.com/ http://telehack.com/), oldusenet (http://olduse.net/ http://olduse.net/), and now this, semi-accurate emulation of the 80's online really seems to be catching on lately. (disclaimer: I did olduse.net)
- sleighboy 15y agoWhile LORD was popular, I always enjoyed a game run on an Amiga BBS called "Hack & Slash". Even has a modern Linux port. http://robert.hurst-ri.us/games/rpgd/ http://robert.hurst-ri.us/games/rpgd/
- mapster 15y ago~~* The Sysop Would Like to Chat ~~
- klinquist 15y agoaah, back when I was a node on FidoNET.
- pkh80 15y agoI liked how the business model of LORD was to get you to pay so you could do it with Violet.
- dgabriel 15y agoThe very first thing I looked for was Trade Wars.
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- codezero 15y agoI'm pretty sure Google would have had some hot ANSI art by ACiD, not the colorized ascii. The API quota is exceeded for search but not for "L" I'm feeling lucky.
- stevetursi 15y agoI Said the same thing to my friend. His response, "Yeah.. and Yahoo, trying to be all hip, would have an iCE logo..."
- pooriaazimi 15y agoI like how it runs 'C:/DOS/BBS/GOOGLE/google.com' :) .COM was (on of?) DOS executable file extension(s) - before .EXE...
- pooriaazimi 15y agowell, actually it runs 'C:\DOS\BBS\GOOGLE\google.com'. I forgot how DOS uses backslash instead of forward slash in paths...
- jspiral 15y agoCompletely irrelevant of course, but iirc COM is a raw binary, smaller than 64k that can be loaded into memory and started by pointing execution at offset 100h. EXE files were larger and had to be rebased by the OS on load. Someone tell me if i got this wrong, it's been a while!
- derleth 15y agoNo, you got it right: COM files were raw binary dumps of code and data, a legacy from CP/M, whereas EXE files had the MZ magic number (for Mark Zbikowski) and enough data in the header to allow relocation. Also, COM files in VMS are the equivalent of BAT files in MS-DOS and shell scripts in Unix-like OSes.
- webnzi 15y agoAwesome! Brings back so many memories...
- joeycfan 15y agoNot bad, but the Goggle doodle should come up in ANSI...
- gbvb 15y agoThat is Beautiful!Now, can we get that on emacs..:)
- tambourine_man 15y agoUnless you had a Mac.
- feefie 15y agoRed Ryder / Red Ryder Host FTW - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ryder_%28software%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ryder_%28software%29
- jaysonelliot 15y agoThis really makes me want to fire up the Contiki browser on my Apple ][ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzgp7xTp1k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzgp7xTp1k
- mixmastamyk 15y agoYep, 5 minutes to download a very dithered .gif of Elle Macpherson in a wet t-shirt. Good memories. Also noticable that computers back then were usable at night with their black backgrounds.
- kleiba 15y agoMandatory link to Jason Scott's awesome documentary on BBS's: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
- melipone 15y agoI love it. Why does it bring such warm and fuzzy feelings? The result of my lucky feeling search brought up a wikipedia page. It was such a let down.
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- joshu 15y agothe modem wouldn't re-make the carrier noises after connection.
- sopooneo 15y agoWhy did modems bother to output those noises to the user anyway?
- mkramlich 15y agoWhat I like about this the most is that it reminds us just how much real work, real information, real stuff can get done with such a simple UI paradigm. Text characters can move mountains.