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Screenshot of a BBS menu. The screen is filled with an 8x3 grid of pink rectangles on top of a blue background. Each rectangle contains a different clickable command.

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Since 1988, IGS had made it possible for sysops to spiff up BBS menus by drawing graphics, or at least changing fonts and colors.But in 1990, IGS added support for mouse interactions. Now point-and-click menus and interfaces were possible on Atari ST BBSes!https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/09/13/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-5-point-and-click/The results varied widely, a preview of the weirdness to come in the wild woolly early days of the WWW.#atari #atarist #dev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

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