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Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …

What was “ANSI art”?
What was a “bulletin board”?
Were there ANSI comics?
Heck, how do you even define "comics"?

… Well, I've got some answers:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/28/ansi-art-and-webcomics-bbses-and-the-artscene/

#retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics
#vintagecomputing #computerhistory #textart #bbs #ansiart

🤔 ❓
Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions …

What was “ANSI art”?
What was a “bulletin board”?
Were there ANSI comics?
Heck, how do you even define "comics"?

… Well, I've got some answers:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/28/ansi-art-and-webcomics-bbses-and-the-artscene/

#retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics
#vintagecomputing #computerhistory #textart #bbs #ansiart

Made a quick, thick, psychedelic display font

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#typography #pixelArt #textmode

Made a quick, thick, psychedelic display font

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#typography #pixelArt #textmode

A recent experiment. I made an "ascii automata" which on click places a random glyph, then analyzes if the character "touches" any of the glyph edges, then places another random character which continues the edge connection, and so forth, until it places a character that doesn't touch any edges. I made it so that you can mix and match different character sets from the dropdown menu (or load your own as png).

You can play with it at:
https://hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata/

#ascii #textmode #asciiart #PixelArt

SPLiT

#teletextart #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart #8bit #1bitart #1bit #monochromatic #monochrome #art #bbs #ceefax #tekstitv #skeleton #skull

Gardener

Which version do you prefer?

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #skull #garden #gardener #monochrome #colored

A recent experiment. I made an "ascii automata" which on click places a random glyph, then analyzes if the character "touches" any of the glyph edges, then places another random character which continues the edge connection, and so forth, until it places a character that doesn't touch any edges. I made it so that you can mix and match different character sets from the dropdown menu (or load your own as png).

You can play with it at:
https://hlnet.neocities.org/ascii-automata/

#ascii #textmode #asciiart #PixelArt