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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The data for the pages was contained in the “flyback”; each dot of each frame of your normal TV programme image started at the top left of the screen, moved to the right and then flew back to the left, one line down until you had a screen’s-worth. The flyback was fast so as to get a full screen image in whatever the frame rate was (30Hz?) Originally the flyback was just wasted bandwidth: a necessary loss whilst your TV moved it’s electron beam back to the left hand side. But because the flyback was fast, you’d never be able to get a full ‘proper’ image in there; that’s why teletext was text and primitive block graphics. And why you’d have to wait several minutes to see the page you wanted on a trend page cycle!

















  • Oh no! I guess no good deed goes unpunished after all.

    I’d better start by saying this is not my server and it sounds like you’ve found yourself in corners I’ve never visited or imagined there would be. I simply stumbled upon it and thought I’d share some Nice Stuff.

    The concept of players taking their time to offer something genuinely useful to other players, at considerable in-game cost to themselves and irl very laborious seemed genuinely altruistic: a rarity these days.

    I’m not going to go hunting until I find the Bad Stuff you refer to; it’s the Nice Stuff that needs a helping hand!

    I’ll follow-up by apologising for not being specific enough and try to fix that:

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