June 13, 2004

Ascii Art

Back in 1995, when the Web was young, in the days of venerable Netscape 1.0, when COCC had about 200 computers connected to the internet through a single 56k switched ISDN line, I made ascii art. It was one of the few things that made me famous in my important circles of telnet chat buddies over about a dozen EW-too based talkers; the administrators of which would often rewrite bits of C code in the talkers just to let me chain together virtual rooms into ascii art galleries, easily accessable from the main rooms. I made the login screen for the largest and most popular talker, which remains it's login screen to this day. (Fox has asked me to update it and I have yet to come up with any brilliant ideas :)

I made dozens of works in 1995, only a few of which I still have copies of. I've only made a handful sinc

Posted by jesse at June 13, 2004 10:51 PM
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I remember back when having big ass email sig's like that was the cool thing to do. Maybe I'll stick one back on my account at work. :)

Posted by: monkeyinabox at June 14, 2004 05:28 PM