[BC] "PLUNK your magic twanger, Froggy"

Larry Albert larry.albert
Tue Feb 14 09:21:36 CST 2006


At 07:58 AM 2/14/06 -0700, you wrote:
>" I loved Howdy Doody! I wonder if anyone on the list remembers Winky Dink?
>Now that was fun stuff for a youngin' like me. :)
>Steve "
>
>Didn't full participation in Winky Dink include putting a piece of plastic
>over the CRT?  IIRC, they would send a "secret" message or picture, in
>segments.  If you had their plastic gizmo over your screen and traced the
>segments throughout the program, it would, eventually, form a message or
>picture.  Boy, you blew out some cobwebs there.
>
>Gary, K?CX


   Interactive TV way back then in 50's.

   Anybody know of any earlier interactive TV ???

Albert




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