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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 31 Aug 2001.
Re: Interesting question.

Re: Interesting question.

"Sara Gardener" <sar...@yahoo.com> 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, nei...@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/
Hacker, Unix Guru, El Eng HTL/BSc, Sysadmin, Archer, Roleplayer
- Intellectual Property is Intellectual Robbery

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Date: 31 Aug 2001 21:34:02 +0200
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