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  Cern Linemode Browser and Maylin font RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-14 17:55 +0000
    Re: Cern Linemode Browser and Maylin font Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-04-15 05:41 +0100
      Re: Cern Linemode Browser and Maylin font RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-15 09:19 +0000

#2382 — Cern Linemode Browser and Maylin font

Caught this on hackernews today; it's pretty neat:

http://optional.is/required/2013/09/25/cern-line-mode-browser/ is the
story of one of the original browsers developed for the WWW at CERN.
Look towards the bottom of the page to a link that emulates the original
experience in a modern browser, slowing down the text using javascript
and some tricks:
http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

I tried it and it filled me with nostalgia (and a sense of gratefulness
my browser is better than my serial connection these days).

Finally, I found the whole thing through this link from hacker news,
about how they recreated the font.
http://optional.is/required/2014/03/26/meyrin-cern-terminal-font/

It's a pretty font, I think.  I had some business cards printed up, just
for the hell of it, earlier this year.  And I used the graphic of an old
DEC terminal and printed it in the GlassTTY font.  You can get to it via
http://blog.fosketts.net/2010/01/25/stupidly-cool-terminal-fonts/

Party like it's 1985!

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#2388

RS Wood wrote:

> the story of one of the original browsers developed for the WWW at
> CERN. Look towards the bottom of the page to a link that emulates the
> original experience in a modern browser, slowing down the text using
> javascript and some tricks:
>
> http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Was the s/w really so dumb that it wasted time and bandwidth 
transmitting trailing whitespace characters on a line? Back in the day 
of dumb terminals, we used a library that kept a screen map in memory 
and only sent minimal changes down to the terminal to re-paint the screen.

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#2390

On 2014-04-15, Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> RS Wood wrote:
>
>> the story of one of the original browsers developed for the WWW at
>> CERN. Look towards the bottom of the page to a link that emulates the
>> original experience in a modern browser, slowing down the text using
>> javascript and some tricks:
>>
>> http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
>
> Was the s/w really so dumb that it wasted time and bandwidth 
> transmitting trailing whitespace characters on a line? Back in the day 
> of dumb terminals, we used a library that kept a screen map in memory 
> and only sent minimal changes down to the terminal to re-paint the screen.
>

Well, this is just a software simulation in javascript and CSS.  They
probably didn't waste tons of time imitating the experience down to the
smallest details.  It's useful for your typical 20 year old who has
never known anything slower than a gigabyte ethernet/4G connection, or
any OS older than WinXP or iOS.

To quote a line from my favorite show, 'IT Crowd:'  "Remember when you'd
be up all night, only see 4 girls?"  A lot of kids would be amazed.
Hell, my uncle helped put men on the moon in the age of slide rules and
calculations made with paper and pencil.  The Millennials have no idea!

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