Re: What got you interested?

In article <e6M...@4ax.com>,
  Jan-Erik Finnberg <whe...@icenet.no.spam.please.fi> wrote:
> Do you remember what got you interested of ASCII-art?

My Grandparents gave me a portable Underwood typewriter, when I was 13.
The q and e keys stuck a lot, and a few others would barely type out
capitals. In a fit of frustration, I discovered I could not only type
unreadable correspondence, but unfathomable pictures as well. Years
later,
I was to see dot-matrix computer ascii, and discover that my secret had
been stolen. In an angry fit, vacillating between wrath and despondency,
I eschewed further forays into text-art, but sometime in my Selectrix
days, I
began demonstrating the ability to produce these little pictures, again.
Mostly to people who were unable to discern the pseudo-picture I
created,
and so observed that it was possible I had never learnt to spell.
Further
demonstrations came as the years wore on, on friends' computer systems.
Computers were pretty primitive, at the time, and it was not until some
years
more, when a pal of mine began to operate a major node for FidoNet,
that I
noticed just how useless my ability was. As the disassociated networks
began
to congeal into the internet, and children grew and built computers, I
was
to find Usenet newsgroups. Here on usenet, there were actually other
people
who could spell no better than I, and maintain that their poor attempts
to
reproduce the Gettysburg Address were in fact some kind of picture made
with
text. Furthermore, they had a lot of rules about how to type: what font
to
use, how to format this and that, and who you should vote for in the
next
tribal election. Seeing these distressed souls, it occurred to me that
they needed my help. Since that time, I have attempted to humor them,
so that
none would leap from some major precipice or dormitory window in their
madness,
and fall inexorably to their doom.

JRO

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If you land on this planet, Norxit,
then the space drive had better be
out of element Z. If you try to tell
me to grok or walk, I'm.....

Jonathon R. Oglesbee
oglesbee@
     mail.fullnet.net



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