General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone

Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by mietek on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:23PM (#16898367)

> Some inventions seem genuinely prescient, like a collection of animated proto-emoji stickers. Some are impractical but fascinating, like a “town” computing interface with buildings for apps.

I wonder how many other have never heard of Apple’s eWorld.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by jhbadger on Sunday April 22, 2018 @07:52PM (#16899402)

These sorts of interfaces were very much of the atmosphere of the mid 1990s. Another somewhat better known one (although known as a flop) was Microsoft Bob. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by LeoPanthera on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:32PM (#16899606)

A friend of mine recently developed robert.js, a library for manipulating Bob's datafiles.

https://github.com/Treeki/robert.js

For example, here are the Bob rooms, rendered in your browser: https://wuffs.org/bob/room.html

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by byproxy on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:53PM (#16899136)

Also, the Packard Bell Navigator. I had so much fun in that interface when I was a kid.

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by cromwellian on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:34PM (#16898435)

I wonder how many never heard of Quantum Link’s Habitat from 1986.

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