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If you care about #retrocomputing, and you use Google search, please add Break Into Chat as a "preferred source"! Just click here:https://www.google.com/prefere…
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Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business. Subscribers could dow…
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Lokke began publishing his "telecomics" at the height of the 1992 presidential election.He used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americ…
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In an alternate universe somewhere, nobody has heard of “webcomics.” Instead, there are thousands of “telecomics.”In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “teleco…
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Do you remember BBSes or ANSI art? Interested in comics or obscure bits of history?Please check out my profile of ANSI artist Eerie, a talented teenager in Queb…
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Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's som…
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A pyramid piece by Steve Turnbull, called "XNET_LST.IG", is a trippy tour-de-force — the most amazing IGS animation ever created, in my opinion. Full of details…
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IT'S HERE! My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad…
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Have you explored the #longreads story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Disco…
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From full-blown graphical user interfaces, to strategy and dice games, the point-and-click features of "Instant Graphics and Sound" made some radically differen…
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How about some #RetroComputing #LongReads to relax with this weekend?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Discover the artist, the…
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Besides working as a scenic artist, and playing with Atari ST computers, Steve Turnbull also loved slope soaring -- designing and flying gliders.When he began d…
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🌞 🎭 🎨 Steve Turnbull worked in showbiz and lived in sunny Laguna Beach, Calif. A visual thinker, he had become disenchanted with the text-only world of Atari…
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Looking for some retrocomputing long reads to relax with this weekend? Check out the first three parts of my history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" on Break In…
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