Re: History
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 19 Aug 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Matthew Thomas <mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote: >Colin Douthwaite wrote: >> >> In several ways the last 2 years have seen some interesting >> developments in the history of Ascii Art and the newsgroup >> alt.ascii-art. >> >>... >>... >>... >> >> Ascii Art and its newsgroups can only benefit from the input of >> talented people like those above who have made significant >> contributions. > ,. _ > |J /J > ,') n F > |( __J. ,-----------------------------------. > | `- ] | `Let us therefore brace ourselves | > _> .:;J | to our duties, and so bear our- | > | ``"'. | selves that if ASCII art and its | > )_' _,' | Usenet groups last for a thousand | > ,MMMMMMF ,..___,. | years, men and women will still | > MMMMMMM MMMMMMMJ | say, `this was our finest hour'. | > JMMMMMME MMMMMMMML `. ,--------------------------------' > MMMMMMM[ ,aJhmmmmmmmmMMM. |/ >JMMMMMMM[ `"*MMM**H*MMMP*" / >MMMMMMMME (,-=ms:mn-J' ' >MMMMMMMMMn_ mt-2 :._.'_\:.J >YMMMMMMMMMO+n._ `;:`---(.[ > "*MMMMMMMMhh++MMMLhn;;::.J. > "*MMMMMMMMO+O"*OMMM++-"'.Mhm,. > "*MMMMMMMO+++`**MMMP**"'MMMO, > "*MMMMMOO+++OOMhMh YM\OOO > "MMMMMOO++OO`MhOO\/MMM\+/L > |MMMMMOO++OO`MhOO\OMMM\+|| > JOMMMMMMOOOO.MMMO+\**OM\|JL > FOMMMMMMMOO.'MMMOO+A+OMM|OO, > /OOMMMMMMMOO*!MMMMOJ+\+O'|MOL > /++OOMMMMMMo |M\MMO/m==|+O|OMM > '">++OOOMMMMM/MMM"-"O++oAO+|OMOh I'm intrigued. Exactly how did you produce that picture of Winston Churchill? My guess is a scanned photograph from a history book followed by a GIF to ASCII conversion. It isn't too bad...although the facial image is not great it is recognisable for who and what it is. The available GIF to ASCII convertors are crappy in my opinion. :-( Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,b95c078a91be9537 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,b95c078a91be9537 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz> Subject: Re: History Date: 1998/08/19 Message-ID: <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 382744990 References: <903...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <35D...@spamfree.land> Organization: Southern InterNet Services User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.4 (sun4m)) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation
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