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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Google 60 and Google BBS Terminal - interacting with computers in 60s and 80s



Two very nice projects from masswerk.at recreate human-computer interaction in 1960s and 1980s:


Google60

The link to the working application - Google web and image search as it could have looked in 1960:

http://www.masswerk.at/google60/

“Google60” is an art project to explore distances and heroism in user interfaces.
All scripts and images © 2012 N. Landsteiner, mass:werk – media environments, www.masswerk.at.


Here is the screenshot from the second interactive application:

Google BBC terminal

Follow this link to try the application - Google web and image search as it could have looked in the 1980s:

Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s

(c) 2012 mass:werk – media environments, N. Landsteiner,
A working service after a video by Squirrel-Monkey.com: “If Google were invented in the 80s”.