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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Jul 1996.
Re: Ascii-art in HTML

Re: Ascii-art in HTML

In article <7E5...@xemu.demon.co.uk>,
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine  <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Those of us who are on slow links, community based small machines,
>  blind people needing text to convert into speech, and so forth,
> can have text only like this
>    ____________________
>   | $#@  [A POTATO]    |
>   |_@@?________________|

Wow.  Ugly.  :)
The versions of Lynx (is it the *only* text based browser, or just the 
only one that anyone uses?) that I've used just substitute the ALT text 
seamlessly.  This leads to little clevernesses like:

	"If you're really interested, here's a picture of my dog,
	 Muffy McShane III.  But you can't see it."

Well, it sure beats 

			[IMAGE] [INLINE] [ISMAP]

	This page was made in SpiffoWeb 2.0! (c) 1996 by Fred Bobson

Ooh!  An alt.religion.scientology sig, featuring the judge's drowning dog!

[snip]
>OT8 Cognition:"Source is the 8th Dynamic"

And Paul McGann in the 8th Doctor. :)

--Eric Smith

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From: cse...@blaze.trentu.ca (Eric S. Smith: Left-Field Marshal)
Subject: Re: Ascii-art in HTML
Date: 1996/07/14
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references: <4rigs4$ed...@olorin.nask.pl> <0$DNw...@xemu.demon.co.uk> <Pin...@wknc3.sca.ncsu.edu> <7E5...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
organization: Trent University, Canada
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.html
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