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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Nov 1993.
Re: Why???

Re: Why???

In article <2be3rp$6u...@sal-sun10.usc.edu>, wdo...@sal-sun10.usc.edu
(Arkadiusz Wdowiak) writes:
<>From: wdo...@sal-sun10.usc.edu (Arkadiusz Wdowiak)
<>Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
<>Subject: Why???
<>Date: 5 Nov 1993 09:51:53 -0800
<>Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
<>Lines: 27
<>Sender: wdo...@sal-sun10.usc.edu
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<>   People, we are living in the 1990's with computers that produce graphics
<>at
<>1600 x 1200 pixels at 16.7 million colors on 21-inch monitors? Are wer
<>stooping so
<>low as to live in the 1970's and produce pictures using - dare I say it -
<>TEXT? Do
<>you guys draw this stuff using typewriters too?

Why not?  ASCII art has the highest hardware/software support for
universal compatability. :)

Besides, they usually use less disk space...
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From: dcg...@eos.ncsu.edu (Darksyde)
Subject: Re: Why???
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1993 00:56:41 GMT
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