Re: Settling the stein argument -- hopefully

On 23 Jul 1998 17:38:15 GMT, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote:

>>Message-id: <35b...@news.ic-net.com.au>
>
>I find it very difficult to believe that in the 150
>years that typewriters have been around, that
>noone managed to put the following characters
>together:   " for eyes,  ( for back of head,
>> for a beak;  ( ) for a body, ^^ for feet,
>> > for wings, and a , for tail 
>in order to make an ASCII  bird.

>Pete's characters are so rudimentary.
>I compare it to the classic ASCII stick figure.
>Who "invented" them?--  can you prove it??

Well, when the first appeared I had never seen them before, and even
though they are rudimentary I do really think they are indeed Pete's
inventions...and accordingly, he should be credited with the innovation.

Pete's stein characters may not be great works of art and it is true that
anyone _could_ have done them...but they didn't and Pete used them in
a newspaper style comic strip like the Wizard of Id etc.

Some people really like those comic strip series...others don't.

So, my personal opinion is that the "Asciisteins" have become secondary
only to the "Silly Cows" genre. Whether people like the steins, or not,
they do add more variety to what alt.ascii-art carries and I think that
has to be good.

Now...let's open another can of worms...who invented the Silly Cow?

Bye,

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