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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Nov 1998.
Re: Ascii Art & YOU

Re: Ascii Art & YOU

SheDragon (Spirit of the Night) wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 04 Nov 1998 16:04:14 GMT, noe...@beer.com (Noemie) wrote:
> 
> >>* History : do you know when it's begin ? How ?
> 
> I think thats been answered a couple of times now. Until I read more
> about it in the newsgroup I thought it had started on the Net with
> email smiley's and etc.
> >>

The first ASCII-art I know about is the Mona Lisa. It was a piece
designed to test 11x15 line printers on main-frame computers. It was
passed around on various media formats and languages. As far as I know,
it has exhisted since the early 70s.

-- 
                    /)-._    Time : Sun Nov  8 09:53:07 1998
                   Y. ' _]
            ,.._   |`--"=    It has long been known that one horse can
           /    "-/  `.\     run faster than another -- but which one?
  /)  sk  |   |_     `\|___  Differences are crucial.
  \:::::::\___/_\__\_______\
- Lazarus Long, a fictional character created by   Robert Heinlein

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From: Martin DiViaio <mar...@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Ascii Art & YOU
Date: 1998/11/08
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