• Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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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      In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)

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

          Source: I hosted one until 1997.

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                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.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

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

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      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).

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