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this image is from 1993 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[-] AZERTY@feddit.nl 84 points 10 months ago

ASCII art was truly peak humanity.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

This isn’t ascii. There are several Unicode characters in there.

Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

ah yes, the ancient ascii characters of mathematical element of ∈ and contained in ∋. ^ but ∧, the fu フ from japanese ascii, subset ⊂ and superset ⊃. Chinese day 日? This kanji ヽ. Very equal ≡. That ∀ looking beak thing ...
0/10 no korean ascii

[-] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 10 months ago

I really miss how tacky and cute the internet was. Everything is so pretty and cool now but like... Not in a good way, its just bland.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago

In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

Well... I was born after that. Even the internet I used had, well, this meme for example. ASCII art was common even when Twitch released in... 2010? The internet I used growing up in the late 2010s was still so inherited from whatever was stable enough to last through the 2000 dotcom bubble or release just after.

[+] quindraco@lemm.ee -7 points 10 months ago

All BBSes were on the internet.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 26 points 10 months ago

That's not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago

No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.

Source: I hosted one until 1997.

[-] rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 10 months ago

This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I mean...
It's technically incorrect...
But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

The point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago

Well that's certainly not true in many practical senses.
Was ARPANET global? That was a proto internet but certainly wasn't ever intended to be global.
The full scope of undersea cables and satellites were probably not considered in the early days of Internet Proper. Even today, there are all kinds of barriers to the internet truly being considered to be "global", from companies semi-benignly tailoring their content, to China just having a completely separate internet. With licensing and local laws and firewalls and taxes and asynchronous infrastructure development and paywalls, I don't think you can say that "global" is the property that sets the internet apart from BBSes.

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 10 months ago

you can still do that you're allowed

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

But I'm not a web designer or website host 😔

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

that's why geocities came back :3

[-] aulin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It came back?!

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago

GeoCities went away and came back? I dont think I ever saw a GeoCities before present day. Its just a place where everyone can have one website and they are usually... Boldly designed, and personal. Right? I get why we need that now, but do you know more?

[-] pine@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

they might be talking about neocities

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago

From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

Any medium can become a medium for art if you work hard enough :)

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hotlink a better quality image

![Typewriter art of a butterfly by Stacey Flora](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Stacey_butterfly.jpg)

Anyway, typewriter art is obviously still different from ASCII art/kaomoji because characters can be printed over each other, and a special button allows the cursor to move freely vertically, as opposed to ½/¼ line height (free horizontal positioning and rotation must be done by reloading the paper, which is why some typewriter art doesn't incorporate these).

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

holy shit thank you, I was about to ask why they uploaded a goddamn thumbnail lol

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 30 points 10 months ago

This really feels like it is proof of time travel

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

Is that a Toyota Supra MK3?

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Murder Missile for Gran Turismo 4

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Probably the most powerful car you can get on GT1 for less than 10k

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it is!

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Omg you have quite the eye, lol! I had an '89 turbo for a while... I loved that car <3

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Yooo is that a Supra?

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

The rest of the internet just caught up to the creator of this

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

rip bash.org

gone but never forgotten

[-] effward@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

wtf? When did it go down? I swear I was on it just a few months ago...

[-] Taringano@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

It went away Beacuse the owner accidentally posted his password online. It was *******

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

that's weird. it shows up as ******* for me.

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

the wisdom of the ancients

[-] ilovesatan@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

This comment from 2023.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I fucking love this

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

I refuse to believe it. We didn't have Unicode back then and there is absolutely no way that upside down A, Japanese kana, and mathematical set operators all ended up in the same codepage.

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