Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 23 Feb 1998.
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Demons Dialing in ASCII (and other Phun things)...
alt.ascii-art
· 2 messages · 23 Feb 1998 - 1 Mar 1998
Somewhere in my dark and misguided youth (way back in the mid-eighties),
I
once flirted with the evil hobby of hacking/phreaking. The phollowing
ASCII's were one of the results of said activities.
In brief: the "Demons" were a reference to "Demon Dialing"--more
commonly
known as "War Dialing" or simply "Exchange Scanning" (i.e., autodialing
large
blocks of phone numbers to try and find computers to hack). The
"Phed-Mobile"
was the resulting efforts of law enforcement if any Hack/Phreak failed
at
his/her current exploit. (Tech-heads please note the microwave
receiving
dish atop the van.)
One more thing, the "Little Demon Dialer" was actually an animated ASCII
art
character from an old exchange scanner I wrote on my beloved Amiga,
circa 1987.
His facial expression as well as his T-shirt logo would change in
proportion to
the amount of time a particular number was being "scanned".
Needless to say I no longer practice these shameful activities [cough,
snicker].
C.Caldwell <har...@ptd.net>
Good, bad or indifferent, here they are:
"Phed-Mobile"
"Little Demon Dialer" __
})
_})
. /
. | . ^___^ .----------------|-------.
| | | |. o| //---| "UNDERCOVER \.
\|/ \ U / [# // | FEDERAL VAN" |.
| |-| @ :------. ||
@\ /v\ [#\ | - | :You:squeal: [] |:
| \_-'---`-.`/ :| ___ | ::we:deal::: ___ |:
| \ MTV /|/` :|/,o o.\ /,o o.\\#)
| \___/ ' .__. ` o O o --##########- o O o '
| | _ | ' |::| `o_o' `o_o' CSC
CSC | _|/ \|_ `.'----
"Big Demon Dialer"
(...wearing Nikes? -- ALL demons wear Nikes!)
: ^ ^
. | . \\ //
| | | \\ //
| | | (` \_/ ')
| | | (` ')
\ | / |\_ _/ |
\|/ `.o\ O.' [##
| | | [##
| | U | (@)
| ` _/ ' (@)
| \ - / [#@\
(@| \~/ [##~\
(@|\_ / V \ `\ )
(@|_;\ -|._ _.|- / /
| \ \ / `-----' \_/ `
| \ \/ / `
| \ A T & T __/ '
| \_/ | '
| | $UCKS / '
| `| |' `
| | | `
| `| |' `
| `--=--' '
| | | | ' |_|
| | _ | ' / \
| | / \ | ` |:::|
| | | | | ` .~|:::|
| | | | | ` ' |___|
| |_| |_| `.,' .-------.
| _)/ # # \(_ | ___ |
| _/- . : : . -\_ | | | |
| ( ~__/ : : \__~ ) | | | |
| `______' `______' |_| |_| CSC
__
})
_})
/
.----------------|-------.
//---| |" \.
// | |"LOWERS Q U O |.
// | \|/ |.
// | |) \|/ |.
:------/ |)Y | ||
| - | [] |:
:| ___ | "|" ___ |:
:|/,o o.\ _|_REINE /,o o.\\#)
` o O o --##########- o O o '
`o_o' `o_o' RG/CSC
:-)
See ya, Randy.
--
--ran...@slip.net (Randy Gardner)
--http://www.slip.net/~randyg/index.htm - *New* Download a maze
program that lets you actually walk *inside* the maze!!
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