![]() I did have to change the way my viewer displays text though because otherwise it just looks like junk text. ![]() While roaming around on opensim, I stumbled upon an exhibit that showed off a bunch of ANSI art which was simply amazing, I believe it was on a region that was responsible for a customized version of the Ruth Avatar, but it has been a while. While exploring it, I thought how cool it would be if ANSI was supported through SL, although I really doubt many people would appreciate it that much.Īs far as people flooding local chat with ASCII art, it brings back a bit of that nostalgia feeling so I am okay with it all. I do recall doors just started using RIPscript when I made the switch to the web, and it never really took off. I think RIPscript was what surpassed ANSI on the BBS scene but, it was short lived as the Internet became more popularized and the web was more capable with gifs. I never had the knack for it myself, even though it never stopped me from trying. I remember well going through ANSI art on BBS' and being amazed at the skill involved with it all. The ones that make your chat window scroll like those old superfast page printers.? Not for me, thanks, but I wouldn't want to take away the warm, fuzzy feeling of those who enjoy them. Personally I limit myself to the occasional unicode character in a message (a 'thumbs up' or something), like I might us a 'LOL'. With ANSI art you could make your art animate! What better use of a 300 baud modem and expensive telephone call could there be? that's where ASCII (and, even more fun, ANSI, which most actually use but think it's ASCII) art started of course. The terminal room (which also soon housed the very earliest IBM PCs) had a glass wall with the mainframe on the other side and the lower ranks would stand with their noses pressed to the glass wondering what we were up to in there, humming the theme to Wargames. Our CompSci department had some superfast line printers that could actually throw wide carriage fanfold straight up into the air as it exited the printer's top. ![]() Wow - things buried in deep memory! Yep - I recall those days too. Reminds of the the days when people would print ASCII "Art" on long fanfold banners from dot-matrix printers.
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