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Employees work on computers at ICONZ, an internet service provider in New Zealand, in the mid-1990s.

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In 1991, Jon Clarke and Stu Lees created a one-of-a-kind graphical user interface for their STaTus BBS in Auckland, New Zealand. Anyone who tried it would "see and hear a new world of modeming," they promised.https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/09/13/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-5-point-and-click/They used "Instant Graphics and Sound" to transmit the graphics, as well as MichTron's MCL scripting language.STaTus would later become ICONZ, an early NZ ISP.#atari #atarist #dev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #textmode #history #bbs #bbsing #igs

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