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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.

This entry was written by Kathy Kinsley, posted on 25 Sep, 2004 at 20:36, and filed under Geek moments.

6 Comments

  1. Eric Akawie
    Posted 25 Sep, 2004 at 21:14 | Permalink

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

  2. Kathy K
    Posted 25 Sep, 2004 at 21:34 | Permalink

    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.)

  3. Steven Den Beste
    Posted 26 Sep, 2004 at 10:58 | Permalink

    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!]

  4. Ken Summers
    Posted 26 Sep, 2004 at 23:56 | Permalink

    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)

  5. Kevin
    Posted 27 Sep, 2004 at 06:30 | Permalink

    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!!)

  6. Kathy K
    Posted 27 Sep, 2004 at 07:45 | Permalink

    The nice thing about Ascii art (unanimated) is that it is device independent. You can even do it on a typewriter…