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[-] AZERTY@feddit.nl 84 points 1 year ago

ASCII art was truly peak humanity.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

This isn’t ascii. There are several Unicode characters in there.

Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago

In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

you can still do that you're allowed

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

But I'm not a web designer or website host 😔

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

that's why geocities came back :3

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] pine@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

they might be talking about neocities

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It came back?!

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

Any medium can become a medium for art if you work hard enough :)

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hotlink a better quality image

![Typewriter art of a butterfly by Stacey Flora](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Stacey_butterfly.jpg)

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).

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

holy shit thank you, I was about to ask why they uploaded a goddamn thumbnail lol

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago

This really feels like it is proof of time travel

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Is that a Toyota Supra MK3?

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Murder Missile for Gran Turismo 4

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Probably the most powerful car you can get on GT1 for less than 10k

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Omg you have quite the eye, lol! I had an '89 turbo for a while... I loved that car <3

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it is!

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yooo is that a Supra?

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

The rest of the internet just caught up to the creator of this

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

rip bash.org

gone but never forgotten

[-] effward@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

wtf? When did it go down? I swear I was on it just a few months ago...

[-] Taringano@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It went away Beacuse the owner accidentally posted his password online. It was *******

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

that's weird. it shows up as ******* for me.

the wisdom of the ancients

[-] ilovesatan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This comment from 2023.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I fucking love this

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

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.

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