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An early IBM PC model sits in a wood-panelled room, displaying WELCOME TO RICK'S in green on its monitor.
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Mistodon: Rick has been running one BBS or another for 40 years now, a milestone celebrated by fellow SysOp Darkman Almighty in this #ANSIart screen of a deskto…

Posted by mistfunk

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This image shows a blonde-haired cartoon character with gray skin and bloodshot eyes holding a gun. "Oh well ... they're after me! Gotta hide in this dark alley!" he says.

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…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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It would be hard to overstate the antipathy among many Atari ST users for the IBM PC and its clones. They saw the PC as an inferior, ugly machine. The IGS anima…

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This collage shows 16 pieces of retrocomputing artwork made on the Atari ST.
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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…

Posted by kirkman@digipres.club

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"Mack the Mouse" telecomic shows a big mouse standing. Behind him, two people's heads stick up out of the ground. A sign says "The Clinton win is like Groundhog Day. Democrats keep popping up to see if they see their shadow!"
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I just added ~140 ANSI "telecomic" strips to the 16colors archive.https://16colo.rs/artist/don+lokke+jrThese #ANSIart #textmode political cartoons were created …

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On the screen of an IBM PC from the early '80s reads the text "1984 Proudly Presents..." At bottom, written large in a style as it would have appeared on that screen at that time, is a command at the MS-DOS prompt: C:\>LGR_

Mistodon: this #ANSIart tribute to Clint Basinger's @lazygamereviews as depicted on an early #IBMPC, was drawn by @meatlotion of thE qUAntUm wOrmhOlE BBS and in…

Posted by mistfunk

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