opello 6 days ago

Just because old ASCII and ANSI art is often signed by the author, which is something fun I appreciate, see also:

https://oldcompcz.github.io/jgs/joan_stark/xmas.html#treewit...

And of course, the BBS Documentary: Artscene episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQrBbm5ZMlo&list=PL7nj3G6Jpv...

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  • Grosvenor 6 days ago

    Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text would be useful).

    Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!

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    • robobro 6 days ago

      > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

              .-"```"-.
       /_\ _ _ __\
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      {} {_,_,_,_,}
         )/ a  a \(
        _(<o_()_o>)_          __
       { | /_)(_\ | }       _/  \
     /`{ \        / }`\   _| `  |
    /   { '.____.' }   \ {_`-._/
   /     {_,    ,_}     \/ `-._}
  |        `{--}`    \  /    /
  |    /    {  }     | `    /
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       |     ||     |
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        |    ||    |
        /-. _||_ .-\
   jgs /    /  \    \
      |___ /    \ ___|
      `"""`      `"""`
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    • opello 6 days ago

      Glad I could share it!

      https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says:

      > Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

      I assume that's how the top level comment posted the tree which is in a <pre><code> structure.

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      • Grosvenor 6 days ago

        But we still miss out on the great ANSI colors.

        I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool text-mode lightbar interfaces.

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  • kylecazar 6 days ago

    Ahhh of course it's a signature. Makes total sense now.

    I thought it was just a straggler.

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