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            1 .SH linuxconsole
            2 Animated ASCII art
            3 .2C 10v
            4 .
            5 .PP
            6 With all the history of ASCII art and demoscene,
            7 it would be a shame if noone ever tried to combine the two in animated ASCII art.
            8 Courtesy of textfiles.com,
            9 we can browse through a collection of 93 animated ASCII pieces of arts.
           10 .
           11 .FS
           12 http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
           13 http://linuxconsole.net/ascii_art.html
           14 .FE
           15 .
           16 .PP
           17 They are also mirrored at the bitreich gopher site
           18 .FS
           19 gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/
           20 .FE
           21 .
           22 .PP
           23 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal,
           24 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised
           25 by linuxconsole.net, or with pv(1) as below:
           26 .
           27 .1C
           28 .
           29 .DS
           30 curl -s gopher://bitreich.org/1/vt100/animations/twilight.vt | pv -qL3000
           31 .DE
           32 .
           33 .2C 10
           34 .
           35 .PP
           36 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
           37 after watching.
           38 .
           39 .PP
           40 Some are just a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
           41 while other might be closer to a short animated movie.
           42 Talking of which, long movies were also done:
           43 .
           44 .DS
           45 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
           46 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
           47 .DE
           48 .
           49 .PP
           50 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another,
           51 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, tales from the imagination of plain text artists.