What would facebook be like in 1984

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Christian Liendo < christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote: well, one other problem with this portrayal is that it's inaccurate. I still have my brochure from the early 80's for Compuserve. There was already RLE graphics support on their VidTex service on Compuserve in '84 for most of the micro's on the market back then. It was only b/w but still 256x192 res. They even had libraries of digitized photos, beside plain images. The service was damn expensive but it worked. I bet It wouldn't take much to scan your photo then for that retro version of FB. Although I can't recall at the moment when the consumer document scanners were available - there might have been still only commercial grade scanners available at the time. But I guess if you could afford the high connect rates at 9600bd for Compuserve you could also afford one of the first commercial Fuji digital cameras which arrived a couple of years later :) =Dan --http://www.vintagecomputer.net/ragooman/