Subj : Re: In the future..
To   : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Mon Jun 08 2020 12:35 pm

-=> On 06-06-20 17:52, mark lewis wrote to Black Panther <=-

 ml> sure it could... the twitch.tv and discord chat stuff is shoehorned
 ml> over IRC... i know some who participate via their IRC clients without
 ml> seeing any of the graphical content rendered... how they do it, i don't
 ml> know but i know it is done... in the same fashion, the same could be
 ml> done with FTN stuff... hell, look at email and news... they still use
 ml> the original formats and carry a lot of graphical stuff... there's a
 ml> lot of folks out there who would be quite surprised to find that email
 ml> is still the same as it ever was... only a lot of it is encapsulated in
 ml> MIME these days... the same could be done with FTN stuff if someone
 ml> really wanted to do so...

It seems a lot of legacy tech has been retrofitted to support more visual
interfaces, and I agree, I don't see why it couldn't be done with FTN. 
Graphical renderings could be supported straight away over HTTP(S), NNTP and
email.  "Native FTN" support of these extensions would come when software
athors incorporated the ability to render them in their BBS software.  Same
goes for the rest of the ecosystem.  But there would need to be a way to ensure
that older software would only have to handle text information. 

There's a number of ways this could be done.


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