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Re: Cern Linemode Browser and Maylin font

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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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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

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