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If you care about #retrocomputing, and you use Google search, please add Break Into Chat as a "preferred source"! Just click here:https://www.google.com/prefere…
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In 2006, I made a screen capture of this nifty ANSI title screen from the BBS door game "Solar Realms Elite." Seven years later, I realized this was a CUSTOM ti…
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Still, political ANSI art was more of an exception in the early 1990s. PD artists were more likely to be inspired by pop culture or the theme of a particular BB…
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In 1990-91, America was involved in a very different conflict along the Persian Gulf. Polls showed Americans strongly supported the war effort. On BBSes, this l…
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Lokke gave away his "Mack the Mouse" telecomics for free, hoping to entice BBS sysops to pay for access to his Online Publishing business. Subscribers could dow…
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Lokke began publishing his "telecomics" at the height of the 1992 presidential election.He used them to channel the skepticism and anger felt by everyday Americ…
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In an alternate universe somewhere, nobody has heard of “webcomics.” Instead, there are thousands of “telecomics.”In 1992, Don Lokke Jr. coined the term “teleco…
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In the decade after Ward Christensen and Randy Suess created the first BBS, there was a growing tension between commerce and the common good. BBSes were born in…
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In the early 1990s, as BBSes turned into businesses, some sysops and developers started making real money. Could ANSI artists and publishers do the same?https:/…
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This pair of alluring ANSI eyes was included in ProMatch 3.0, an online dating program from 1995. I had to cut them from *The Modem World *but just stumbled acr…
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Do you remember BBSes or ANSI art? Interested in comics or obscure bits of history?Please check out my profile of ANSI artist Eerie, a talented teenager in Queb…
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ANSI artist Eerie is the subject of my latest in-depth #retrocomputing profile:https://breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12/31/ansi-art-and-webcomics-part-3-eerie-and…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
"Calvin and Hobbes" was a major influence and subject for ANSI artists of the 1990s. https://16colo.rs/tags/content/calvinThe characters were so funny, so well-…
Posted by Kirkman@mastodon.social
🤔 ❓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 …
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One book claimed "Inspector Dangerfuck" by ANSI artist Eerie was "the first known comic on the internet." But who was Eerie? What was "Inspector Dangerfuck?" Wa…
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🤷♂️ "Very little is readily available"🤷♀️ "I couldn't find much"🤷♂️ "Information is scarce and unreliable at best"For nearly 20 years, writers have been a…
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Was "Inspector Dangerfuck," an ANSI art series by Eerie, really the "first known comic on the internet" as claimed in a 2006 book? Probably not. But there's som…
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A pyramid piece by Steve Turnbull, called "XNET_LST.IG", is a trippy tour-de-force — the most amazing IGS animation ever created, in my opinion. Full of details…
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IT'S HERE! My in-depth history of "Instant Graphics and Sound" — the little-known text protocol for bringing vector art and music to BBSes — has reached the sad…
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Have you explored the #longreads story of "Instant Graphics and Sound" for the Atari ST?https://breakintochat.com/blog/category/instant-graphics-and-sound/Disco…
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Breaking news: I've got a cool update to my IGS series!This morning, Tony Rau sent me a 2.5-minute video he recorded in 1987, showing Ralph Mariano, his Atari S…
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Beyond upgrading a bulletin board with clickable menus, IGS’ mouse-interaction features had enormous potential for #BBS games.https://breakintochat.com/blog/202…
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Since 1988, IGS had made it possible for sysops to spiff up BBS menus by drawing graphics, or at least changing fonts and colors.But in 1990, IGS added support …
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