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[tinyjo]

Which well known novel was this new tech/service inspired by? Honest, it's easy. I'm definitely going to have to check it out when I've got broadband.
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well, that's the best-drawn one of them I've seen so far

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

... but hardly a new idea. We were doing this back in the early 90s, you know -- via telnet, with text.

I built the world's funkiest tree-house, and Damian made an entire valley full of talking cats.

Re: well, that's the best-drawn one of them I've seen so far

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I still judge all comers against Cheeseplant's House (http://www.cheeseplant.org/~daniel/pages/cph.html) from 1991!

Re: well, that's the best-drawn one of them I've seen so far

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Cheeseplant's House, rings some bells -- think I remember hearing about that, vaguely.

I liked the total possibility aspect of operating purely in text -- confined only by imagination. When I last started looking at the graphical ones a few years back, it all seemed a clip-artish, not much potential to be anything other than a gabbling smiley-face.

This one looks like the creative possibilities are coming back in again, may be worth checking out (though I'm not sure I have time!)