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farcitizen | 1 month ago

Love to see retro ANSI art. I was in both the large ANSI artist groups, ACiD and iCE back in the day. These ANSI blocks were a next level step in online graphics, from ASCII art. This was the predecessor to Adobe Flash.

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pseudosavant|1 month ago

Good old ACiD and iCE! I remember fondly drawing some pretty sophisticated ANSI in TheDraw. I never mastered the many-many-screenful art pieces that you'd see ACiD/iCE artists doing though. I did a few chat interfaces in ANSI art too for friend's BBS'.

EvanAnderson|1 month ago

I remember diddling around in TheDraw and wishing I could make things as cool as what I saw in the ACiD and iCE packs. Looking at the raw ANSI codes and to see what they were actually doing was a lot like "View source..." when HTML hit the scene.

mock-possum|1 month ago

What would being ‘in the group’ look like, day-to-day? Socializing on BBS? Collaborating on new pieces?