[17:24:10] <ShakespeareFan02>	 Hi
[17:24:23] <ShakespeareFan02>	 I am looking for a technical person to possibly assist with something unusual
[17:26:10] <bawolff>	 Sounds mysterious
[17:26:22] <bawolff>	 like the start of a crime drama
[17:28:11] <ShakespeareFan02>	 bawollff: back in the mid 80's there was a UK system called Prestel
[17:28:33] <ShakespeareFan02>	 I was wondering if for April 1st anyone was capable of mocking up a 1980's Wikipedia main page ;)
[17:29:06] <ShakespeareFan02>	 I.e 24x40 text with lo res bloc graphics ;)
[17:29:10] <Vermont>	 When was Wikipedia started?
[17:29:19] <ShakespeareFan02>	 2001
[17:29:22] <ShakespeareFan02>	 I think
[17:29:27] <bawolff>	 I think dispenser did a telnet-ish mockup once
[17:29:39] <bawolff>	 yes 2001
[17:30:00] <bawolff>	 the wikipedia article on wikipedia has more details
[17:30:44] <bawolff>	 shakespeareFan02: what not even 80 characters wide? Truly the dark age
[17:31:04] <ShakespeareFan02>	 Wasn't 80 charcter wide at least on the UK system
[17:31:10] <ShakespeareFan02>	 Not sure what Minitel did
[17:31:33] <bawolff>	 and of course we actually do have a telnet gateway (not the same, but related idea)
[17:32:24] <ShakespeareFan02>	 Oh?
[17:32:52] <bawolff>	 IBM punch cards were 80 chars wide which is i believe where the standard came from
[17:34:08] <bawolff>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-04-01/Technology_report
[17:34:18] <bawolff>	 For telnet gateway
[17:35:27] <bawolff>	 And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser for a bbs style mock up page
[18:24:06] <Dispenser>	 ShakespeareFan02: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Telnet At some point I'd like to do a BBC Domesday Project inspired design
[18:25:28] <Dispenser>	 There's a project to perverse the system: https://www.domesday86.com/ 
[18:26:04] <Dispenser>	 There also several encyclopedia ISOs on the Internet Archive from the early 1990s
[19:04:05] <ShakespeareFan00>	 Dispenser: Hmm
[19:04:23] <ShakespeareFan00>	 Doomesday86.com is long dead :(
[19:04:47] <ShakespeareFan00>	 It's now part of Doomesday Reloaded on the BBC's website IIRC
[19:39:36] <Dispenser>	 ShakespeareFan02: Dead?  They just posted a disk^H^H^H^H LaserDisc image two weeks ago.  They're aim to build an emulator and document the system similar to the MAME project
[19:42:04] <Dispenser>	 Unless your thinking of the BBC's Domesday Reloaded.  That was a bit of a failure.
[19:57:54] <Dispenser>	 ShakespeareFan02: Anyway I'm game for coding something, if your up for pushing it through.  We can base it on several old designs: PLATO system, Compton 1994 Encyclopedia, Encarta 97, and probably a lot more I haven't cataloged yet
[22:40:07] <subbu>	 Dispenser, have you seen https://github.com/cscott/wikipedia-telnet ?
[22:48:33] <subbu>	 see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-04-01/Technology_report and it is still accessible via telnet.wmflabs.org
[23:43:23] <Dispenser>	 subbu: He stool my idea AND user page!  Its also a non-ncurses interface, only marginly better than telnetting and typing GET /wiki/Article_name
[23:54:39] <Dispenser>	 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dispenser/2011