Lizistrata. Poster by Boris Bućan (1983)
Tag Archives: 1980s
Bildschirmtext was an interactive videotex system launched in West Germany in 1983 by the Deutsche Bundespost, the (West) German postal service. More info here.
Kaleidoscope (1988-2007) a CBM Keyboard Graphics, PETASCII, CGFX Editor by Bryce L. Tomlinson for C64.
The C64 was capable of automating the entire knitting process thanks to a system called CAPS (made by Empisal in Germany). The setup consisted of the C64 (of course!), an Empisal 550/560 knitting machine and the CAPS interface. The process of knitting your favorite jumper consisted of designing a series of patterns on the C64 which you could then save to disk and combine with other patterns to create a larger image. Source
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.
The SCA virus is the first computer virus created for the Commodore Amiga and one of the first to gain public notoriety. It appeared in November 1987. The SCA virus is a boot sector virus. It features a line of text that appears at every 15th copy after a warm reboot:
Something wonderful has happened Your AMIGA is alive !!! and, even better… Some of your disks are infected by a VIRUS !!! Another masterpiece of The Mega-Mighty SCA !!