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 This is a personal story I hope will give web designers and user interface experts some food for thought: my experience with reading digital screens with eyesight degraded by cataract. There may be more users with suboptimal vision than usually thought. https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/the-faded-world-my-experience-with-cataract Now that it's no longer possible to rank in web searches, unless you're a content farm or a major publisher, it's a good time to ditch SEO, drop keywords, use descriptive headlines instead of catchy or clickbait ones, and write for humans. SEO won't help anyway, so let's help the readers who care. I'm having too much fun exploring NoteCards, the hypermedia system of Medley Interlisp. It provides a rich hypertext environment and tools as well as an extensive, easy to use Interlisp API. This is a good introduction: Notecards in a Nutshell Medley Interlisp has experimental support for VNC on Linux via TigerVNC. As the screenshot shows, a 1080p Medley desktop can now completely fill the screen of my 1080p monitor with no window borders, black bands, or other Linux user interface elements.  It's now available the paper of the Medley talk Andrew Sengul gave at the European Lisp Symposium 2024. It outlines the history of Interlisp, introduces the Medley revival project, and presents the main features and facilities of the environment. The Medley Interlisp Revival @amoroso #lisp #interlisp #commonlisp This series of posts by @sjl is a true gem worth bookmarking. It describes a CHIP-8 emulator in Common Lisp whose techniques are applicable to other systems. But the series is also a Lisp software design resource in disguise, as it presents a Domain-Specific Language for concisely and clearly describing machine architectures and instruction sets. One year ago these days a spaceship with the sign Medley Interlisp on the hull landed in my backyard. I cautiously climbed inside and... https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-encounter-with-medley-interlisp Now I'm a crewmember, I can fly the ship a bit and peek behind a few panels, and I'm having lots of fun. Julio Merino dived back into some decades old text mode editors and IDEs, particularly Borland's which were the pinnacle of this technology. https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/the-ides-we-had-30-years-ago-and
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@amoroso I used Borland Turbo C++ at school.
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Arne Bahlo makes the case for archiving old projects and gives some practical advice: This was doomed to happen. Play DOOM in Teletext: The influential hypermedia system NoteCards, which provided inspiration to other such systems in the 1980s and later. Here it is running in the cloud under Medley Interlisp in an online session on my Chromebox.
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 @amoroso Looked like #HyperCard in the thumbnail, makes sense that there would be a connection. What system did this originally run on?   @amoroso I've had lots of fun messing around with it! Thanks for the interlisp braincons
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Those times were so amazing. I remember the joy of finding a website for a community I was interested in, finding the webring they were attached to, and having access to so much new information. Or when it was near impossible to talk to someone online and then ICQ changed everything. I remember the excitement of finding RealPlayer copies of South Park or 128Kbps MP3 files of songs I hadn't heard in years. Now we have Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Let's take back the Internet. Love your timeline, btw. Do you have any videos? If so, you should share them on our PeerTube instance at tilvids.com If not...maybe we should collaborate sometime and make some. I've been meaning for a long time to do a "What if..." series revolving around what "the Internet" might have looked like if different protocols besides html/www became the dominant players (Gopher, Usenet, IRC, etc) |
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