BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showed up

Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by fouc on Thursday July 23, 2020 @11:04AM (#23928069)

It's kind of amazing to think that if we hadn't gone the HTML route, we might've gone the RIP route..

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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by christianvozar on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:44PM (#23930004)

One thing to note in why RIP could have never been successful, aside from originally being closed-source, is while it was vector-based in nature the specification called for a static sized view port of 320x200. Future revisions of the spec could have fixed this but it would have missed the window to be relevant going from BBS to WWW.

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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by tenebrisalietum on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:39PM (#23929191)

SGML was a thing before RIP. We might have skipped from SGML to XML though, and something like `<rip>...</rip>` might have been a thing.

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