Re: Interesting question.
From Neil Franklin <nei...@franklin.ch.remove>
· alt.ascii-art
· 31 Aug 2001 19:34 · View full thread
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"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:
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| |email | |
| Name: [As|news | ] |
| Family: [Ar`------' ] |
| Age: [50 ] Sex: [n/a ] |
| Address: [somewhere on the net_ ] |
| [ ] |
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`---------------------------------------------------------------'
-%%- 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.
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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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