Saw a guy in a thread yesterday that said that ripscrip ruined BBSes
Well fuck you buddy
ITT: Let's celebrate graphics technologies from the early internet and pre-internet days
Saw a guy in a thread yesterday that said that ripscrip ruined BBSes
Nathan Sanders
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Austin Rivera
RIP - Remote Imaging Protocol - was a proprietary instruction set of vector graphics primitives. In the days of slow data connections it was faster to send the instructions on how to draw an image than it was to send a JPG or GIF. In the modern day SVG works the same way
It got relatively popular at the end of the heyday of BBSes, and was even considered to be added as a graphics standard for the early internet. Ultimately that was shot down because of RIP's proprietary nature
Ethan Harris
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Joseph Rogers
Before RIP if you wanted graphics the go-to solution for most was ANSI, as it tended to be universally supported as it was mostly just an extension of ASCII that allowed for more symbols, plus codes to add color
It was drawn character by character, like ASCII art
fuck off zoomer, I was there
Andrew Scott
I never saw these on a BBS, but there was a vector graphics system that preceded RIP that was an internationally-recognized standard in North America called NAPLPS
I heard it got use on some BBSes, but was mostly known for being used in expensive videotex services, as well as the online service Prodigy
Brandon Morgan
>Saw a guy in a thread yesterday that said that ripscrip ruined BBSes
didn't ruin anything. RIP was never popular, never good, and nobody supported it except for bloated amerilards running boards nobody visited.
Anthony Sanchez
>and nobody supported it except for bloated amerilards running boards nobody visited
America had the lion's share of people online at that time
Xavier Martinez
It's also interesting to note that somehow NAPLPS caught on amongst Japanese HAM enthusiasts, despite
1. It being developed as a protocol for Canada and the US
and 2. Japan having its own graphics protocol called CAPTAIN that got used in its own pre-internet services. (CAPTAIN worked very similarly to how a fax machine encodes an image)
This boom among amateur radio enthusiasts led to the early Japanese internet also supporting NAPLPS, as there was a lot of overlap between the communities
The Japanese pre-internet scene seems pretty interesting. Wish I could read moonrunes
Jack Davis
>America had the lion's share of people online at that time
i can't ever imagine being this fucking retarded. truly can't. RIP was barely popular in the United States and was ALWAYS an option to use, unless it was a RIP only board, and there were even less of those in existence. how's it going making up computer history as you go? not so well? that's a shame.
Jaxon James
Are there any games done in ripscript?
Why so bitter about it?
Aiden Campbell
stay mad turdworlder
Jackson Wilson
the majority of door games were ansi-only, but some did add rip support
slbbs.com
Even Legend of the Red Dragon got in on it
Thomas Howard
> be RIP
> released in 1992
> EVERYONE USED IT! IT WAS POPULAR!!11 TRUST ME GUYS!
> 1992
when did the bbs scene die? 19fuckin95 is when shit hit the fan. you bloated american pedos are the worst compulsive liars that ever existed. it's like you think google doesn't exist outside of your pedo country and we can't look up the history of your cancerous topic. livestream your suicide, you abject failure.
Alexander Sanchez
here's a better screen
Elijah Miller
now we just need ripchan
Colton Howard
Wyatt Howard
Austin Flores
Xavier Turner
Blake Adams
I am in awe.
Levi Mitchell
some of the art groups put a lot of effort into it
Jeremiah Lee
Landon Powell