Tuesday, April 07, 2009

It's still 1982

The computer I am using to post this was produced in
1982. There was no web at that point, but I
was using the internet with my vic--20.
We sent e-mail around the world using fidonet-
in my case through k-12 net.



Although until Mosaic I might not have been able
Control text appearance, much of what I did via e-mail
then, I can do now.


In some ways it is regrettable that the net did
not stay text centric- if we assume that print assumes
a particular way of thinking. for example thehypothesis
that the invention of perspective required the development of
the printing press.

And how might the C=64 have evolved if text had dominated.

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