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🖥️ 🖱️ 📈In 1988, Larry Mears created a revolutionary tool for displaying animations and graphics on normally text-only Atari ST BBSes. The problem was getting people to use it.https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/08/04/instant-graphics-and-sound-part-2-larry-mears/Part 2 of my "Instant Graphics and Sound" history takes an in-depth look at Mears, his first attempts to expand the frontiers of BBSing, and his early discouragements.#atari #atarist #dev #gamedev #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computers #textmode #textart #history #bbs #bbsing #igs