rchandraonline's Journal: strange how we've come full circle on terminals

Having just read a Wikipedia article on CMS that described 3270 terminals, I had to smirk a bit because for years there was that big difference in terminals, between character-oriented and screen-oriented. Color me sort of amused that we've gone back and forth now a couple of times. We had the 3270 screen-oriented way, then character-oriented (not sure which was first, actually...the first I encountered was the character oriented CRT). Now when we do Web forms, we're more or less back to screen-oriented input. But now with things such as JavaScript and AJAX, we can go back to character-oriented interaction.