Don't worry Tello .... things have come a ways since then.
The 3270 terminal is character based - standard mode was 24 lines of 80 characters, but there were some other modes for terminals that could handle them. The only images you could show were made up of different characters.
Now we have high res colour monitors (what we would have called graphics screens back then). Today, 16 million colours is considered pretty ordinary with resolutions of 1280 x 1024 common and 1600 x 1200 is no big deal.
Graphics abound, screen designs can be sophisticated, animations, interactive mousing ... a myriad of elements that can be woven into any number of possibilities, especially when coupled with the internet.
- News items
- A gallery of sunsets
- eCommerce and advertising
- someone's website selling needlecrafts to the world
or
- a doodled piccy of drummer sitting at a bar arguing against the claim that he doesn't know Jack.....
What can I say...?
There's style and ... well ... there's style.