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No, Google Wave is the new RIPscript: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/PROGRAMS/GRAPHICS/RIPSCRIPT/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/PROGRAMS/GRAPHICS

by rjurney 17y ago

No, Google Wave is the new RIPscript: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/PROGRAMS/GRAPHICS/RIPSCRIPT/ http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/PROGRAMS/GRAPHICS/RIPS... "In 1993 Telegrafix created RIPscript or RIPscrip, which stood for "Remote Imaging Protocol". It was intended to be a vector-like graphics protocol that used ASCII files to describe lines and shapes to a client. This sort of approach (send descriptions of graphics, render them at the client side) had been done before, but a major push came with RIPscript and it followed onto the internet as a plug-in. Ultimately, the protocol did not catch on and was soon forgotten."

gfodor 17y ago
Now there's something I haven't thought about in like 15 years! RIP script was cool, I remember the editor they had for it was pretty slick.
- rjurney 17y ago
  Doesn't it kinda remind you then? You know - the folly of specifying the future before it happens. RIPscrip made tons of sense until... something unpredictable like interwebs happened :) The pipes turned out to be different in practice than the BBS perspective told us. Wave has that same kind of feeling to me. Not saying there's not some neat there, but the style of the announcement and marketing... feels like RIPscript to me - doomed, arrogant, silly.
- domodomo 17y ago
  Playing Door games in RIP. It was like living in the future. Thems was the times.
jimbokun 17y ago
"Ultimately, the protocol did not catch on and was soon forgotten." So the acronym expands to "Rest in Peace Script"?