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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Oct 1996.
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alt.ascii-art · 5 messages · 7 Oct 1996 - 31 Oct 1996
Carrico <car...@ix.netcom.com> 7 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
Why is nobody using a GIF or JPG format?
Ojoshiro! <kas...@formal.nl> ASCII art 7 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
Carrico wrote:
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> Why is nobody using a GIF or JPG format?
Well, all ASCII in a gif file is the name of the file...
That wouldn't be much fun to look at, would it?

Hope to have been of any help!

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David Hendrix <nic...@tindrum.tng.oche.de> ASCII art 9 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
        |"|     When I scanned my Messagebase on 09.10.96 I
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c> Why is nobody using a GIF or JPG format?

 Why should anyone?

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Joerg Stoever <twi...@tindrum.tng.oche.de> 9 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
Hi Carrico !

c> Why is nobody using a GIF or JPG format?

'cause the name of this newsgroup ist alt.*ASCII*-art

Liebe Gruesse,
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shannon wagoner <sha...@som-uky.campus.mci.net> 31 Oct 1996 00:00 · permalink · report 
car...@ix.netcom.com (Carrico) wrote:

>Why is nobody using a GIF or JPG format?

well, let's see, maybe because it's an ascii group, there are nearly a
hundred groups for gif/jpg and only 3-4 for ascii

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