X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6b7d1dcd14ec72a3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-31 12:31:51 PST From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Interesting question. Date: 31 Aug 2001 21:34:02 +0200 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 38 Message-ID: <6uk7zkt45x.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <9mj0b3$75v$1@snark.paco.net> X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Aug 2001 19:34:02 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 NNTP-Posting-Host: galapagos.ethz.ch X-Trace: 31 Aug 2001 21:31:48 +0200, galapagos.ethz.ch Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ge.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:7232 "Sara Gardener" writes: > How you imagine GUI in ascii? No need to imagine it. Such UIs existed and were used on productive computer systems only 10 years ago[1]. I have actually written such programs professionally. Damn that I do not have a screenshot from one. So I will have to make an simple "artists representation" of what they sort of looked like: File Edit Database Search Help .-----------------.------.--------------------------------------. | |email | | | Name: [As|news | ] | | Family: [Ar`------' ] | | Age: [50 ] Sex: [n/a ] | | Address: [somewhere on the net_ ] | | [ ] | | | | | | | | | `---------------------------------------------------------------' -%%- 150 records loaded Ovr [1] Is the past already so far away that todays kids do not know these any more? Now I _do_ feel old. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer - Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery