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I wonder if the same people also think manipulating the tones to make free phone calls, as shown in Hackers, is also just a Hollywood myth. That shit was actually real.
for a while they sent websites over the tv signal. i forgot how it was called tho. you needed a tv tuner card to receive it on your pc
Are you referring to Teletext, or something else?
It was Intercast
That reminds me. They did used to broadcast software over teletext over TV https://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/ceefax/telesoftware/
There was also a system where some TV screen pixels were used to send data, but I’m struggling to remember how you were supposed to get it into the computer.
I suspect that you needed to build some light sensor with a serial cable, that you held to the screen, but I’m not sure.
This was in the Netherlands, not sure if it was done elsewhere.
and its predecessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_System
And Programs/Games came on Casettes :)
You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.
Just in case, no it’s not a joke.
Examle: Book - 101 BASIC games: https://archive.org/details/101basiccomputer0000davi
well yeah and because you don’t want to type the listing down all over again, you save it onto tape.
TIL!
Yes, I’m in this picture, although it makes perfect sense in hindsight. It’s what I would have done if I wanted to get computing going in the 20th century.
We do now too… it’s called WiFi 😅
