ASCII art was truly peak humanity.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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This isn’t ascii. There are several Unicode characters in there.
Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.
ah yes, the ancient ascii characters of mathematical element of ∈ and contained in ∋. ^ but ∧, the fu フ from japanese ascii, subset ⊂ and superset ⊃. Chinese day 日? This kanji ヽ. Very equal ≡. That ∀ looking beak thing ...
0/10 no korean ascii
I really miss how tacky and cute the internet was. Everything is so pretty and cool now but like... Not in a good way, its just bland.
In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)
Well... I was born after that. Even the internet I used had, well, this meme for example. ASCII art was common even when Twitch released in... 2010? The internet I used growing up in the late 2010s was still so inherited from whatever was stable enough to last through the 2000 dotcom bubble or release just after.
All BBSes were on the internet.
That's not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day
No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.
Source: I hosted one until 1997.
This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while
I mean...
It's technically incorrect...
But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.
The point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.
Well that's certainly not true in many practical senses.
Was ARPANET global? That was a proto internet but certainly wasn't ever intended to be global.
The full scope of undersea cables and satellites were probably not considered in the early days of Internet Proper. Even today, there are all kinds of barriers to the internet truly being considered to be "global", from companies semi-benignly tailoring their content, to China just having a completely separate internet. With licensing and local laws and firewalls and taxes and asynchronous infrastructure development and paywalls, I don't think you can say that "global" is the property that sets the internet apart from BBSes.
you can still do that you're allowed
But I'm not a web designer or website host 😔
that's why geocities came back :3
It came back?!
GeoCities went away and came back? I dont think I ever saw a GeoCities before present day. Its just a place where everyone can have one website and they are usually... Boldly designed, and personal. Right? I get why we need that now, but do you know more?
From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)
Any medium can become a medium for art if you work hard enough :)
Hotlink a better quality image
Anyway, typewriter art is obviously still different from ASCII art/kaomoji because characters can be printed over each other, and a special button allows the cursor to move freely vertically, as opposed to ½/¼ line height (free horizontal positioning and rotation must be done by reloading the paper, which is why some typewriter art doesn't incorporate these).
holy shit thank you, I was about to ask why they uploaded a goddamn thumbnail lol
This really feels like it is proof of time travel
Is that a Toyota Supra MK3?
Murder Missile for Gran Turismo 4
Probably the most powerful car you can get on GT1 for less than 10k
Pretty sure it is!
Omg you have quite the eye, lol! I had an '89 turbo for a while... I loved that car <3
Yooo is that a Supra?
The rest of the internet just caught up to the creator of this
rip bash.org
gone but never forgotten
wtf? When did it go down? I swear I was on it just a few months ago...
It went away Beacuse the owner accidentally posted his password online. It was *******
that's weird. it shows up as ******* for me.
the wisdom of the ancients
This comment from 2023.
I fucking love this
I refuse to believe it. We didn't have Unicode back then and there is absolutely no way that upside down A, Japanese kana, and mathematical set operators all ended up in the same codepage.