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To: ShadowAce
Wow! ASCII art! Takes me all the way back to my High School days in 1976 when we used Teletype terminals with 300 baud acoustic modems to write programs in BASIC.

Here's Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII:

https://www.asciimation.co.nz/

6 posted on 01/25/2019 7:07:52 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo
Here it is in a terminal:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

8 posted on 01/25/2019 7:10:33 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Yo-Yo

“Wow! ASCII art! Takes me all the way back to my High School days in 1976 when we used Teletype terminals with 300 baud acoustic modems to write programs in BASIC.

Here’s Star Wars: A New Hope in ASCII:

https://www.asciimation.co.nz/";

WOW indeed... same time frame,same gear, Borroughs timeshare. Next step was Fortran, poked into punch-cards (that chaff got everywhere), and another timeshare to run class projects....

Cheers!

KYPD


24 posted on 01/25/2019 8:05:13 AM PST by petro45acp (All those disopian movies? applefacebookgoogletwitteryahooutoob....you are the bad guys!)
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