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- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23ASCII wasn't around in 1939. It didn't show up until 1967. I get the point though and I would just be being a smart ass if I pointed that out so I wont.
- eizooo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15and he is looking like a real nerd.
nothing changed - dkcronin184, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Before there was ascii there were these things called typewriter keys. Hmm, I wonder if ascii kind of developed from the typewriter with some non-printing control characters thrown in. Naahhh, couldn't be, that would just be CrAzY. :-P
- Shinta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12http://www.duggmirror.com/design/ASCII_Art_From_1939/
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8My "edit" window timed out. What I was going to say was, this teletype art was traded among operators on their teleprinter networks. One operator would type "I'm going to send you a picture." The other guy would start his tape perforator, and the first guy would hit "send." The receiver would not only see the image printed out, but would have his own copy.
Thus, peer-to-peer file trading actually existed before the Internet, the modem, and even before computers.... - AndrewJC, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Well, of course it is impossible to do ASCII art prior to there being such a thing as an ASCII standard. But that takes all the fun out of it. :)
- waterandfood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9The following was dugg months ago (1948 art instead of 1939) and may contain user comments useful to readers of this digg:
http://digg.com/design/ASCII_Art_made_in_1948 - di99r, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18I think the real story here is how hard it was for men to get a good hair cut in 30s.
- ValSpy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Thats really cool, I saw some guy on the TV do that only with colored letters so it looked even more amazing!
- Hardcase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ouch - blasted into ASCII oblivion by Digg.
I journeyed out into my garage o' crap and found the very issue of PopSci, though (thanks, Grandma!) I've gotta credit the guy with having a lot of patience... - Torx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I found some old pictures that my mom and dad had made when they visited Gatlinburg, TN. The large printouts were ascii which struck me in awe as the time period i think was sometime in the 60-70's. It was just a few portrait pictures in ascii. I should frame them and put them up in the house..
- jiub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember the first one I ever saw was the "Certificate of Achievement" or such in Mario Teaches Typing. At the time it amazed me to see Mario's head coming out of our dot matrix printer made out of letters, numbers, and symbols.
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Not even the duggmirror is working for me.
- heinous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not a hoax. The font the heading and caption is set in is Futura, a typeface designed in 1928. Now, some will say that Futura is still around and thriving-- but compare this sample of Futura to Futura LT Medium and you will see the re-design that Futura underwent when phototype was invented and thus allowed for crisper forms. It would take a genius or a master typographer to render those letters accurately in that very dated way.
- matx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Dugg mirror has been dugged :D
- Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could have sworn i've seen this on the frontpage several times before.
Don't take my word for it though. - voldern, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow, that was amazing. Here's some more: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/03/13/ascii-art-1948/.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because duggmirror only grabs the first page, it missed all the links so that when you click for content it redirects to the original page. So duggmirror isn't 'borked', it just didn't grab the right content.
I couldn't manage to get anything off google cache or the wayback machine, either.
Unfortunately, we'll just have to wait until the site comes back up. (Isn't it odd that a nearly full-text page gets knocked off? Usually it's the picture sites that do.) - Hydroxyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Post scans please!
- eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This page kicks-ass; ASCII quarrels aside. Dugg and Dugg
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and this guy:
http://www.paulsmithfoundation.org/main_gallery.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1check out this guy:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m-KtCDOvCdU&search=typewriter%20artist - antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same for Coral Cache links.
- resqboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2he's on OG
(original geek) - stexensticks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This young lady does really dense much more realistic type potraits. she takes a digital photo then acts like a very slow printer...
www.keira-lyn.com/pictures%20first%20page.htm - lulugoldstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw a presentation of ascii art by a then young budding artist Bointon (not sure of the spelling) -- in 1969 -- yes 1969. He was from the KU art department as I remember. He was getting ready for an individual show in New York City-- creating the latest of a series of masterpieces before our very eyes. We were flabbergasted as his card punch creations came out of an IBM printer. Could this be all there is to art??? we mused and slid in a few derogatory jokes to boot. By the way, he also re-created so-called music with the printer being the source of a Sousa march while he was punching cards for the next masterpiece.
Oh, for the good old days. - djuniah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0both links are borked :P
any other mirrors? - j00fek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dead link
- infinity306, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Well how do you explain photoshop if Hardcase is telling the truth and has the actual paper magazine in his possession? a hoax by 2 people?
- CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1ASCII art from 1939 and The Late Great Penn Station have somehow become technical news? Please explain.
- ishmal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, and there was a fairly good-sized group of people who would create artwork on their Teletype machines, save the finished product on punched paper tape, and send them to other guys on their teleprinter networks.
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1NOT ASCII !!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Hey! He only uses the letters X and I on that picture of george washington! "letter art"
- nucleocide, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2www.asciipr0n.com
- SmartITGuy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0not to nit-pick, but if it wasn't created using a computer, then it's NOT ASCII art, it's TEXT art!
...Still cool though! - btipling, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2If digg kills your server, it's time to get a new host or a new server. My site didn't go down and I used shared hosting.
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6He must be the grandaddy of ASCII
- NeilM, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7So, he invented ASCII art?
- t35t0r, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2l33t
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8Woulda been funny if he had done: ( . Y . ).
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