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

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[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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[+] dublet@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 2 years 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.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years 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.

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[+] quindraco@lemm.ee -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

All BBSes were on the internet.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 26 points 2 years ago

That's not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.

Source: I hosted one until 1997.

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[–] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean...
It's technically incorrect...
But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

you can still do that you're allowed

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

that's why geocities came back :3

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[–] aulin@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

It came back?!

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

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?

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[–] pine@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

they might be talking about neocities

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

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

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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).

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[–] Fades@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 years ago