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From: Im@home.org ("Bubba Gump")
Subject: Anyone remember "break messages"?
Date: 1998/09/23
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Hi, I'm an ooooold hand at ascii animation, back from before the Internet, 
only back then I used "Atascii", the extended character set of the old Atari 
8-bit character set. One highly popular thing used to "doll up" BBS's was to 
created animated pages using embedded cursor movements. They called them 
"break messages" and some people, myself included, used to write "movies" done 
entirely in Atascii. (Which went the way of the dinosaur with the advent of 
the bandwidth sucking Internet.)

Anyway, so that these marvels of days-gone-by weren't lost forever, I 
dedicated my website to them. You can download the ones I have, and once a 
month a post another one online in RealMedia format that you can watch online!

The 'Break Movie' Warehouse
http://www.flash.net/~ambrosia/index2.html

and if anyone out there has any old "movies" that I don't, PLEASE pass them 
along!

 -*- Tom -*-