Subj : Re: In the future..
To   : Jay Harris
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Jun 08 2020 09:58 am

 Re: Re: In the future..
 By: Jay Harris to August Abolins on Mon Jun 08 2020 08:45:18


JH> If FTN adopted some of Reddit's ideas, like using markdown for linking
JH> & images along with a half decent mobile and/or web app, that would be
JH> a huge step forward to modernizing the technology.

FTN is transport... it has nothing to do with the presentation... underneath it all, it is still raw text...

presentation is done by the BBS when the user is using it directly via a terminal of some kind... the terminal could easily render the output of the BBS in a graphical way... depending on the content of the data sent to the terminal, it could easily gather and render images or sound... there are terminals, or at least one, that recognise mouse clicks on textual hotspots presented by the BBS...


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