Talk: Is Ascii Art finished?

A fortune cookie said that zhu...@vax.sbu.ac.uk wrote:
>
>Do you find the ASCII-ART is going down: just very limited items appear in the
>NEWSGROUP these days, almost no pictures posted, no pictures are better than or
>match with (at least in my point of view) the famous LION, BUTTERFLY,
>MOTOCYCLE, CASTLE......in this year. Where are the artistics? disappeared? too
>busy?? feeded up with this art?
>
>Save it now! I would like to see more and more new artistics' work next year.

   Things, including ASCII art, go in cycles.  Readers and artists come
and go.  That's life.  ASCII art will be around for a while.  It won't
see a real decline until GIFs are easily used in newsgroups, email, etc,
as they are now used on the Web.

   And even on the Web I use some ASCII because I have over 50 pages, and
using GIFs on all of them would create way to much traffic (my pages get
5 to 6 thousands hits a day as it is).

   Even when the day comes when ASCII art  is no longer 'needed' it will
still exist, as it existed before there was an Internet.  But for right now,
any decline you see is just a low point in a cycle.  Stick around a month
or two and tell me what you see.

>How to save? Please post your idear if you like this art.
>
>My idear is: Whenever an ascii-art posted, give it a talk, say good or bad, say
>your suggestion, and any comments. If you get any picture, just tell the
>artistic what you are going to do with his art work (if possible) and say
>thank you.....What I mean is too silent when a art work posted. If you through
>a stone into a lake and you could not find any sand, nor any wave, you
>must escape back home.

   Run that by me again. :-)

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