So, we’ve seen that digital creativity in the 1980s had a few avenues that could be explored: Logo let you draw to the screen programatically with the turtle, you could paint on the CRT with [more…]
Sysop of The Lower Planes BBS Anthony Adverse answers a few of our questions about the Australian BBS Scene… Thanks for taking the time to chat with us! Firstly, we assume you were a BBS [more…]
What could be better than connecting to another computer remotely? How about remotely connecting remotely? While these days we take the ‘always connected’ nature of our mobile phones for granted, back in the early 1980s [more…]
While using an on-line service like CompuServe allowed you to chat with people all around the world, its per-hour charge was not that attractive to perpetually-broke teenagers. Also, you couldn’t really go ‘hang out’ with [more…]
So, what if we made a really big Bulletin Board System, one that could be dialed-in to from any city, and where thousands of people could interact, rather than just a few? These days [more…]
While the Internet would eventually bring computer-based telecommunications to the masses, by the late 1980s more tech-savvy individuals were already meeting new people and having all sorts of discussions ‘on-line’ – and in some cases [more…]
The latest update to microM8 adds a few new features and fixes a few outstanding bugs. Platoterm support Mockingboard enhancement Original Apple II and 13-sector disk support Compatibility improvements Taking microM8 (and Paleotronic) into the [more…]
While researching for our magazine we sometimes find nuggets buried by time that have been forgotten by the Internet. This particular nugget was found in the May 1977 issue of Creative Computing. Science fiction author [more…]
A desire to have the moon walk broadcast during prime-time US viewing hours, after the moon set there, meant that NASA would have to rely on a dish in a sheep paddock in Australia to [more…]
The impact the live broadcast of the Moon walk had on the populace of Western countries cannot be overstated. Witnessing such a momentous event live made people feel they were a part of it, and [more…]
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