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Subject: [<aa-a> History 1998] Poem by Martin Atkins
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Since I don't have much time for drawing ascii-art pics these days
I thought I'd play archivist. Here is a poem from Martin Atkins around
1998 with llizard adding the entries for myself and B'ger

(Hope it doesn't wrap!)


alt.ascii-art - By Martin Atkins (With some help from llizard!) (1998)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

In the alt heirachy of usenet
There`s a group and many people use it.
The group is called alt.ascii-art
And us people love it with all our heart.

Many people hang around and some more than most,
while a lot just lurk there are many who post.
Here is a list of just some of the posters,
and what sort of stuff they tend to post most (ers)      <g>

     .{{}}}}}}.
    {{{{{}}}}}}}.
   {{{{  }}}}}}}}}    First one of all is Joan G Stark,
  }}}}} _   _ {{{{{   Undesputed queen of ascii art.
  }}}}  6   6  {{{{   Her pictures are absolutely brill,
 {{{{{    ^    }}}}}  her whole gallery shows such skill.
{{{{{{\  -=-  /}}}}}}
{{{{{{{;.___.;}}}}}}}
 {{{{{{{)   (}}}}}}}'
  `""'"':   :'"'"'`
jgs      `@`


      __.------._
    .' -|  -   . `.
   / '.' `-. `     \
  /  /      `.  ` \ \
 |  /         `.  \  |
 |  |           `.   | Next up is Veronica Karlsson,the chat room maker,
 |  |.---.   .---.\  | Hopefully I`ll see you in the chat room later!
 | ||><@> ) ( <@><|` | A FreeBSD user who often gets flack
 |  |     / \     || | from Windows users who`s IQs lack.
 |  |    ((_))    |  |
 | `|`  /     \  '|  |
 |  |   _.---._   |  |
 /  \    `---'    /  |
/    `.    "    .'   \
 / | | `-.___.-' ||   \


      ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
     {;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;}
   {;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;}
  {;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;}
{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} Colin Douthwaite is a bit of all,
{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} his posts really say it all.
{|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||} He`s collector, contributor and artist too,
  |               /~~\      |   And unmunging addresses he don`t want to do.
  =                ;) |     |
/_                 \_/     |
 ///                      |
 ~~~                     |
  /                    |
 /_____              |
       \          /    -cfbd-

   ,a@@@@@@@@@m.
 ,@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@.
J@@P':..    ..:`W@  Matthew Thomas is the FAQ maintainer,
@@@':;;..  ..;;::@) and more than that, he`s a pic creator!
\@!:<#OK>::<4O#>.@  He`s made a lot of stunning pics, on that you can bet,
|.::"??";  `???.:"\ and a wonderful poem about spam on the net.
`._::..:_ee_...::_/
   \:..______,::/
    \::..  ...:/
     `-:____:-'mt-3


Pete Casso is the inventor of the 'stein'
And his characters are absolutely fine!             oo.   oo.   oo.   oo.
Frogstein and Birdstein are the main ones' names   (-  ) (-  ) (-  ) (-  )
and they get up to all sorts of fascinating games.  " "   " "   " "   " "

    ,-.-"".
  ,//(((((\\.  Flump is an artist who specialises in cute,
 ((( (o O) ))) although a few of her pics were very, er, nute!
 _)))  -   |(_ She has a rainbow coloured ascii website,
._//\-._,-/\\_.which if looked at too long might warp your eyesight!
`-'_/`,-.'\-`-'
 ,' \/===\/  `.

~---,
     \_,^%---
      />  \   Then there`s the artist known as ejm,
  ___/ >      Llizard is her actual name,
 (# o) >      She makes tiny art and animations,
  '-~ /|^^    and these things cause revalations!
      | \ ejm


                                        ` ,
                                      ,\, #
                                      |/  ?
                                      | ~ )
  You'll see a tasteful display       /__/|
  from the incomparable J B'ger     ____| |____
                                   /    |_/    \
                                  / \`   o    '-,
                                 /  <_ ___,_  |_/\  _
                                |___/_____  \-'----'\|/-----.
                                     |    \/| b'ger         |
                                     '===x|                 |
                                     ,/  ||  .    _///_,    |
                                     |   -|.     / ` ' '>   |
                                     |    | )   o'  __/_'>  |
                                     |    |(   /  _/  )_\'> |
                                     |    | ' "__/   /_/\_> |
                                     '\_  |     ____/_/_/_/ |
                                     | -  |    /,---, _/ /  |
                                     |    |   ""  /_/_/_/   |
                                     |    |      /_(_(_(_   |
                                     |,   |     (   \_\_\\_ |
                                     /__ .|______\'__\_\_\_\|
                                      /x \ / x\
                                     /x o' 'o x\
                                    /_.'     '._\
                                                   Joris Bellenger

           ,,,,,,, ,,
         ,#######;####,
        ###############
       ##            #
       ##   """  """#       The drawings of Shanaka,
       ##   <0>  <0>|       Come shine or come rain,
       (        :   /       will make you look back a-
        :      ,\,  )       gain and again and again....
        |    _____  :
        |    '-.-' /
         \ \_     /
          \  '---'
           '----'
      Shanaka Dias (snd)

I`m sorry I don`t have time too write about you all,
it`s just a poem, no hard feelings and all?
If you want to write a verse all about you...
feel free, just send me any thing new.
I`ll add it into the poem just here,
And your name will be remembered year after year.
If you think my poem is slightly silly...
I don`t care, I wrote it willy nilly!

So now you know about alt.ascii-art,
which we all love, each one with our heart.
Please look at the art, and do come back...
Oh yeah, and read the FAQing FAQ!

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  Copyright Martin Atkins 1998
    This poem may be freely
 distributed, so long as this
    message remains intact
  Thank`s to Colin Douthwaite
 for his ascii artists gallery -
 without him the pics wouldn`t
      have been possible.
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                                                       ____     _____
               _.                                     /  \  _.-'_.-'
            ;=',_   _____________________________     \  _\/   _/
           S" .--` |      Shanaka Dias           |  ___)/   __<
          sS  \__  |     Victoria, Australia     | <'-;:\_  _\
       __.' ( \--> |     sdias@netlane.com       |     '; \_\
    _=/    _./-\/  |_____________________________|      >/-,\
   ((\( /-'   -'l                                     ""`  |_\
    ) |/ \\    
  snd  \\  \ 
        `~ `~