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. I L 8 - - - - - - CENTERCOURT "side Out to Win'" Rumming at 14.4k Center Court Quantum Net 708.260-6241 Ansi: Sword Sysop: sinjin Weaver

SW-CENT.ANS, 1994-02-17 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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JELCONE COI CHE ENIC. - - I l L - - ANSI 20) Tempus Thales iCE Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253

TTEX2.ANS, 1994-07-17 from Hacker Chronicles 2 (CD-ROM)

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aNSI: SL-BHAUZ. ANS b01D_ SYSOP: Shaolin IUNIOMI hAUZ I'u du aisis fur Lash ur lrade only , so 1f you wamma cantact ne, find meeee on beyand, votb1, or cyc arc sCI. ar cmail MC at: dhnutonedirect. rn Eunky ansi pic by surreal lagic of integrity or S 1995

SL-BHAUZ.ANS, 1995-04-30 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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"OWLOR" rendered in a pizellated grafitti style with round bubble letters, the Os have a dot in them and the first O is slightly smeared.

I was lucky enough to get a request from Revengeday ((https://revenge.day/art/fediverse-creatures)) of an ANSI art graffitti logo, if I was gonna make a logo fo…

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- - - - - - - 6 - 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - I I - - - - - what tha?t#0% this one is even spelled right! welcome to liquid, j00r +ops are oatbran, and psychoholic slag. j00r COS are phanatik, kaz, mart and sone other dewds that tagged along. we work on 2 modes whit the eleet speed of 33.6k, hmmm, that sucks. ** ansi by phanatik of shade "i have to do a pic sometime. no?!" *x

PNK-LQDW.ANS, 1997-02-25 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/maiden15/I3-CIA.ANS #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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- - -u - 111 spilled entrails // - //// - ansi 635241 >> what? spilled entrails logo code >> for ? malformed

DS-SE.ANS, 1998-02-22 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

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- - INSOMNIACS - - PRETT - SysOp : Mr Shades Rumning Celerity! Co : The Trooper INC Distribution! 750 Megs, : - : - HST Support. Give it a call at: ANSi By- 213.221.2014 RaD Man and Grimm KACID> Nov. 17, 1990

DREAM.ANS, 1991-03-11 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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-Ured llclly a much pot Ultals in:Strrcn 1100 +Cil hennlfer warpus CitDtr-rire Gulen Tay, Uie Gehl's Thmen? Dressed in ny battle fatlgues. Inade ny first ansl for Lazarus IU'scall a Rewbie-vemade-shalerpldieclitb-ns-museulile-beim pissot-nn-huyn-ing Ansi. Unit n ser.. This couild hnur hren h Blcndcr topic. IE only L uns an thc IRC. iyway, cool. Guten Tag: Chenical Compound, Rockhead, Morger, wator, Scraphim, Hemnifer, Frondnk CHerr's Piss hnyt) Group Guten Tag to Focus. and Echo. -bumez Uerucn Salt it!

BB-PISS.ANS, 1997-04-21 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/distant2/DZ-DST00.ANS #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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An old ANSI splash page for Hackersville BBS with a city skyline beneath a night sky. System info is in a very colourful box with Sys Op: The Hacker, CoSysOp: Pinkrose, Murman. The OS is P100 cpu networked to a 486 DX2 66mhz. US Robotics 28.8, 7 Disk CDROM!

This way to Hackersville, hub of the mid-90s Eastern Cyberboard. "Eyy, dey call me... The Hacker. I run this joint, see. An' if youse do a lil' favour for me, I…

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: : d : - - I - La - 3008881 F - :: : L - & - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RE - - - 4 - d 1 iniquity Use r configuration - 1) location DL a) address "EA u) usernote FU n) phone num BN y) yes/no bars HY s) screen len "GS x) expert mode IX e) emulation ME h) hot keys JH 9 autoquote LQ W) pausing "KW Z) zip code 02 t) textfile library NT Lenteri save ansi artist *A lescapel abort user configuration command (** )

USERCFG.ANS, 1995-09-16 from PC Online 1997 June (CD-ROM)

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a screenshot of a neovim window alongside a terminal window. the terminal window shows some very pretty looking rust code, and the nvim window shows the same, but much more ugly, with a bunch of variables representing colors mixed in.

do you want to know what i've been doing? i made a clever script to scan my colorscheme for the palette, then convert those into ANSI codes, then took some rust…

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-lacyon- FTachyon- Main Menu >LL File Point Utils List Users Time Bank BBs Listings Message Menu Voting Chat With SysUp System News Recent Callers Email Functions New User Voting User Transfer FeedBack Menu Doors Your Status Goodiye Leech List Set New Scan Infoforms Rumors Top Ten Listing Jump To Conference System Stats Password Change User Config File Sections ANSi Art Tachyon Credits Tachyon Add Tachyon Reg. Info - the Mystic Knighta

MAINM.ANS, 1992-12-25 from The WaREZ HouZE BBS: wbiz 0410 - 0419 (other)

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- - - - this ansi for: doink started by: #06 (cheeze) next: #01 (widowmaker)

06-01.ANS, 1996-08-28 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/dark0797/4THDS-01.DRK #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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a - APATHS - apathy studi ios presents the august 1996 pack : our one year anniversaryt ph34r! trip speaks hi. welcome to apathy 12. hmm. 12. gee, that means 12 packs. we release monthly. hmm.. that boils down to 12 months.. HEY! WAIT A MINUTE'?0 Yes kiddies, it's our one year birthday, and we' re ready to do a little dance, make a little ansi, and get down tonight.. we have all sorts of dumb stuff happening, So read on, young ansi scene followerte gnu memburz it seems to happen most every month, and august was no exception... we gained a few awesome members to add to the already god-like list of apathy studs. first off is a young man named bill, who was a member of apathy way back when, but had to leave because of that pesky no-dualing rule. but hey, he's back, wOrd to that sO everyone give apox a big wet hug. next up is one of those wacky guys from the magical land of canada, home of large beaver eating, hockey playing, penguin humping mounties and guys named prizm : w00. coming over

0896-NFO.ANS, 1996-08-10 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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RGT-TMP2.ANS, 1996-07-19 from ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures/ (FTP)

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ANSI art

https://16colo.rs/pack/bat05/BC-WOE.ANS #ansiart #textmode #bbs

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rs The Maiden Brazil.. Several years ago (in the middle of 1996 to be more precise) I decided to create this group. At that time, I didn't have any idea of what a real ansi/art group was, I didn't even wonder what was the scene, I didn't even know that were some scene' thingy. When the group was - - it. created, So my I first barely release knew - some the ansi classical artist to sep/96's join "ndn-0996.zip" was a solo contibution for my new formed group. It was the first art group I've ever joined. I didn't include an info file in it because I didn't want people to know it was some one-man army" a group with one member. You know the rest of the story. Time passed, people joined Maiden Brazil was the greatest group ever formed on Brazil (and maybe on south america at least we had more releases than that great guys at Circe Argentina, one of my preferred groups). I've said it before, but I'11 repeat it again: at Maiden, at the scene, ansi, I've learned (both from drawing and from the p

RS-GIRL.ANS, 1998-11-01 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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neurosis of tide tide member profile updated - april 1996 neurosis position : presi ident/ansi artist) i'm a former acid/union ansi artist, known for my fonts. i became involved with tide because epis drafted me. he loved me So much, he made me the president "i'm not only an ansi artist. i'm also the president. epistasis (position : founder/ansi artist) well... itall started when i was a young man. my father used to beat me, and sexually molest me. if found my homage among the sheep. as the years progressed if felt a bond to my fluffy friends. Anyway... i'm an ansi artist and in my spare time i make a practice of sodomy. especially with sheep. "just a second, i got a beep" joe camel (position : founder/coder) hi. i'm a coder. "You know what we oughtta do?!?#10 oh. nevermind. that's shitty" flood (position : occasional ansi artist) i was the un-official vice president of relic, and i was also in union. ( phear the kowt ) when i'm not doodling, i like to take long walks on the beach, wat

NFO-0496.ANS, 1996-04-01 from The Equalizer BBS (other)

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my second ansi colly begins here.. sickline for chooka - - HI I - I - in - 'scl' for chnnka rp/poly 005 news - - - - - - insane creators enterprise iCE. - - - : - - happy birthday, synthetic - CiHitin - shockwave bbs aduert - - ave bbs rippa(poly?) polyester e-mag coming soont - Ln - in - - decaying bbs software select SO there you have it, about 90 lines of some nice, different colored, and some very distorted ansi. seeya in the next colly bozo. rippa_ Chotmail.com. and my colly ends here*

RP-ANSI.ANS, 1997-12-23 from dark domain - the artpacks.acid.org collection (CD-ROM)

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Discord now supports full ANSI colors! I updated my colored text website to let you use them, as well as create rainbows and gradients and stuff. rebane2001.com…

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Speeding bike with no rider in front of a background of colored ASCII/ANSI stars and hearts
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#Glitchtober2026 Day 7 prompt: "Inertia" Made using a combination of databending and overcompression, juxtaposed on a background of randomly generated DOS CP-43…

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