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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ASCII art was truly peak humanity.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can still do that you're allowed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that's why geocities came back :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they might be talking about neocities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It came back?!

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

This really feels like it is proof of time travel

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is that a Toyota Supra MK3?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Murder Missile for Gran Turismo 4

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it is!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yooo is that a Supra?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

rip bash.org

gone but never forgotten

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

the wisdom of the ancients

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This comment from 2023.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I fucking love this

[–] [email protected] 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.