On The Third Hand : Ascii art

25 Sep, 2004

Ascii art

My father just sent me this one. It’s a pretty impressive example of Ascii art. Or would be if it weren’t an animated gif. The unanimated stuff is what we used to do on the Internet before there were pictures. Yes, I have been online that long.

Kathy Kinsley at 20:36. Filed in: Geek moments

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But do you know what alt.fan.warlord was all about?

Comment by Eric Akawie — 25 Sep, 2004 @ 21:14
Sigs or something?
I hung around alt.usage.english and soc.culture groups and talk.origins. I even lurked a bit on alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe. (It doesn’t and it bothers me when people put one there.)

Comment by Kathy K — 25 Sep, 2004 @ 21:34
I bet you remember “Brenda". Back when I was in college, I had a copy of Brenda on a card deck.

[May I never program again using Hollerith cards!]

Comment by Steven Den Beste — 26 Sep, 2004 @ 10:58
Wow. I haven’t been on the internet that long.

But I do recall doing ascii pics in the days before home computers. (On a mainframe. In Basic)

Comment by Ken Summers — 26 Sep, 2004 @ 23:56
an ascii movie someone has way too much time on their hands.

and I used to run a Wildcat BBS on a 2400 baud modem in my early online days (it’s nothing to be proud of!!)

Comment by Kevin — 27 Sep, 2004 @ 06:30
The nice thing about Ascii art (unanimated) is that it is device independent. You can even do it on a typewriter…

Comment by Kathy K — 27 Sep, 2004 @ 07:45