Re: History of ASCII Art [Question]

--> First of all - if you re-read his post, you'll find he was not
    saying that caligraphy and ASCII art are the _SAME_; he was merely
    commenting on "ink/paper" artwork. *Read* before you spout off, eh?
    Secondly - when I was in various community colleges in the early
    70's - `ASCII art' was seen reasonably often - but was usually
    limited to "snoopy", "charlie brown", "mona lisa", etc. and often
    several `continuous-form' pages long and usually accompanied by
    whatever year's calendar. In other words; you'd see - in someone's
    office or classroom - a 2 or 3 page `printout' of "snoopy" doing
    his little dance (or whatever) and the latest yearly calendar.
    These were highly prized and enviously coveted and proudly
    displayed. Running a `high-speed' 300 baud teletype terminal link
    to the college main-frame; with a laboriously coded (over and over,
    'till they got it it right!) dozen's and dozen's of feet long
    hole-punched green paper tape - with the odd piece of tape patching
    broken lengths together (as I said - they were hard to make and
    were used over and over and over and over again...); stealing
    class and processing time. Things didn't really develop to
    anywhere _near_ where they are now, until the mid-80's.
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