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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 May 1999.
Re: History of ASCII

Re: History of ASCII

You mean, it's all fake?
A scam, a trick, a practical joke?

.----> On Sun, 2 May 1999 22:20:45 -0500, Donovan announced:
|Vice Admiral Acker wrote in message 
| <372...@news.inxpress.net>...
|>I think the first one was ancient Egyptian cultures, they used their
|>characters to make pyramid-looking pictures on walls.
|
|Those are not ascii charcaters though. That thought was brought up before
|and was shot down for this reason.
|
|A side note....Egyptians aren't really ancient. Someday when people are not
|afraid of the truth, they will show the proof to the public. Those writings
|were of a different culture and the Egyptians pawned it off as their own.
| If
|you want to know more let me know.
|
|--
|Peace,
|Donovan
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From: Kam...@rotfl.com (Vice Admiral Acker)
Subject: Re: History of ASCII
Date: 1999/05/03
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