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From: g02o@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Mark-Oliver Wolter)
Subject: Re: Ascii
Date: 1996/05/29
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Chris Livingston Rae (clr1@st-and.ac.uk) wrote:
:> I think half the beauty of ASCII is that it's the "original" concept - I 
:> mean, you could say "GIF is better! JPEG is better!" but the fact that 
:> ASCII will display on virtual any (I say virtually only in case someone 
:> has a go at me!) console.

I think the 'original' art pieces from the typeprinter time all these
years ago were only uppercase letters ...
(remember these teletypes used as printers? 5-bit code ...)

I have a A3 print of a rabbit somewhere. My father got it from work for
me some 20 years ago ...

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