[ale] To: old timers that have a gmail account

Sean McNealy sean.mcnealy at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 16:06:13 EST 2008


Did it take that long because you were going uphill both ways, by any chance?

Anyway, I've ended up using this "terminal" theme.
It was the ASCII-Art GMail logo that really got me (fixed width font required):

  ___            _ _
 / __|_ __  __ _(_) |
| (_ | '  \/ _` | | |
 \___|_|_|_\__,_|_|_|
 by Google       BETA



On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
> Pete Hardie wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 14:53, Scott Castaline <hscast at charter.net> wrote:
>>> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>> Gee they don't have a teletype style one, now that would be nostalgic!
>>
>> you mean with the text slowly printing out one character at a time?
>>
>> I played a pre-Nethack type dungeon game on teletype once....redrawing the room
>> after every move....
>>
> It would take all day to move from one cavern to another. And that was
> using a hi-speed unit.
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