Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browser
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HN comment orderThats a proper skeuomorphic interface. I like how it discards the card if you use backspace.
Wow! This is actually very classy and reminds me of my dad's office back in the day. I remember going to his desk on Sundays and listening to dot-matrix printers nearby. Now I know those were ordinary MIS/TPS reports that we've come to hate so much. But I used to play with that line-feed paper, ripping its edges where it connected to the printer sprockets. There was also a huge drum printer in that office, with a giant spool of…
Nah... - why does "return" eject the card? - You would more likely get a card as a return. Because that's basically what the computer did back then - sort cards.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 497
- Total comments
- 98
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-10 | Search, Mad Men style: A complete IBM 362 Google interface in the browserFirst breakout · Best thread | brunooo | 395 | 73 |
| 2013-12-21 | What Google would have looked like in the 1960sLatest 20+ point return | lanbird | 100 | 24 |
| 2015-08-15 | What would Google be like in the 1960's? | zatkin | 2 | 1 |