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            1 .SH linuxconsole
            2 Animated ASCII art
            3 .2C 40v
            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 The animation speed will likely be too high for a terminal,
           18 and can be slowed down with the throttle(1) program as advised
           19 by linuxconsole.net, or with the script below:
           20 .
           21 .DS
           22 curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/twilightzone.vt |
           23 while :; do dd bs=2 count=1 2>/dev/null; done
           24 .DE
           25 .
           26 .PP
           27 You may use the "reset" command to get your terminal normal again
           28 after watching.
           29 .
           30 .PP
           31 Some are a pun, a few frames to only give impression of movement,
           32 while other might be closer to a short animated movie.
           33 Talking of which, long movies were also done:
           34 .
           35 .DS
           36 https://www.asciimation.co.nz/
           37 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
           38 .DE
           39 .
           40 .PP
           41 These characters transmitted through one protocol or another,
           42 whispers to us, through our terminal screen, fruit of the imagination of plain text artists.
           43