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122 z
123 { Curly braces. Another programmer-mostly ASCII-ism. Can't get far
in C or its derivatives without them.
124 \| The vertical bar. A waste of a slot. You can make perfectly good
boxes with exclamation points.
125 }
126 ~ The tilde. Generally only used by programmers looking for obscure
characters to exploit.
127 DEL Committee member AT&T required this last slot, 111 1111 in binary,
be a control character. You won't see this character in text
files, but it's what a keyboard spits out when you press the delete
key. *60's workhorse Teletype printers required two control
characters to start a new line: a carriage return (ASCII code 13)
to return the print head to the left margin, and a line feed (ASCII
code 10) to roll the paper up a smidge. Over time, Unix computers
standardized on line feed as its text file line delimiter;
Macintosh computers went with carriage return. PC text files
usually contain a matched CR/LF pair. Sigh.

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History of the PC Ascii Scene (As viewed by the eyes of one that lived it.)

by Necromancer, 06-Mar-1998

(Text taken in most part from a previous article in The Product 2, but I had to
update quit a bit of it.)
Ascii Art as an idea coalesced into existence bceause people wanted more. They
wanted more than just your standard Hercules display Atari or your Monochrome
Commodore 64. To meet this demand, one singular artist, whose name is lost to
the annals of history decided to take the plunge. Instead of text, he (or she)
had the ingenuity to use the characters /, \, \|, -, _ and whatever else came to
mind to create words. An amazing idea.

And a perfect one. People latched onto this. Anyone that could display text
could display ascii art. It was fast, compact, independant of platform type,
and one group in particular set their sights on it the most, the then-thriving
Amiga scene. It was perfect for Bulletin Board Systems, text-based adventures,
for anything they could think of. Perfect then, and to this day for file
descriptions.

While ascii dominated the Amiga scene, the PC scene was giving birth to an art
medium of their own, ANSI. Colored blocks. Oh, the wonders. But there were
people that weren't satisfied with ANSI, they had seen ascii art, and it had
captivated their imaginations. Some people believe that demand creates supply,
and because of this, ascii was tentatively introduced to the PC scene as an art
form.

Tinyz, a member of the Amiga scene warez group Katharsis, recognized the
demand, and started in on the supply. A one-man art group was created by Tinyz,
and this introduced what had long been Amiga-only art (and previously Commodore
64, but not to the extent of the Amiga scene) into the PC art scene.
Katharsis!Ascii was implemented in March of 1994. Tinyz soon found kindred
spirits, and more artists joined Katharsis!Ascii, now known as plain Katharsis,
or KTS. Others tried to duplicate Tinyz and the way he brought ascii art to the
scene, but to no avail. Tinyz was the first to establish a true ascii-only art
group in the PC art scene. Previous to Tinyz, there were only a few ascii
artists that were as known as Tinyz, one of those being Piromaniak of TRiBE.But
no one had the grip on the proverbial ascii testicles in the PC scene that
KTS!Ascii did. That is, until Remorse rose out of the dirt and mooned Katharsis
with it's hairy collective buttocks.

I, along with Necronite (then of ex-Union, Shiver) felt that our art wasn't the
quality KTS was looking for, so we decided to start our own ascii art group,
dubbed Remorse, and started in October of 1994. Originally, it was meant to be
in homage to Tinyz and KTS, but it didn't quite turn out that way. Remorse
quickly gained members that produced quality art, and was KTS's first actual
competition. Oh, RMRS and KTS didn't realize it at first, but within a few
months, Remorse spurred KTS's release of "THE-NME.TXT," which was one giant
"I'm better than you" directed towards Remorse.

While the Remorse death/rebirth drama was being acted out (I'll exclude that
from this -- you can find the history of Remorse elsewhere), several groups
decided to follow in the footsteps of Remorse and KTS. But it wasn't until the
year-long torpor of Remorse and the birth of Whodini's love child, Trank, that
any of these groups started to thrive. With Trank, Whodini recruited most of
the quality artists from the then-defunct Remorse and several new faces. A few
of the members of these new groups started imitating the style of ts, K-Spiff,
KXMode, Mr. Kite and Lord Jazz. With this wide-spread imitation came a division

110 n

111 o

112 p

113 q

114 r

115 s

116 t

117 u

118 v

119 w

120 x

121 y

122 z

123 { Curly braces. Another programmer-mostly ASCII-ism. Can't get far

in C or its derivatives without them.

124 | The vertical bar. A waste of a slot. You can make perfectly good

boxes with exclamation points.

125 }

126 ~ The tilde. Generally only used by programmers looking for obscure

characters to exploit.

127 DEL Committee member AT&T required this last slot, 111 1111 in binary,

be a control character. You won't see this character in text

files, but it's what a keyboard spits out when you press the delete

key. *60's workhorse Teletype printers required two control

characters to start a new line: a carriage return (ASCII code 13)

to return the print head to the left margin, and a line feed (ASCII

code 10) to roll the paper up a smidge. Over time, Unix computers

standardized on line feed as its text file line delimiter;

Macintosh computers went with carriage return. PC text files

usually contain a matched CR/LF pair. Sigh.

www.CharlieAnderson.com

Since 1998, Your Home for Charlie Anderson Information

Send me email: info@charlieanderson.com

This page was last modified on 11/13/2003

File: academy/history/pc_ascii.txt

https://web.archive.org/web/20041220171512/http://www.acheron.org:80/articles/in

dex.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_article&article=20000519180114H

History of the PC Ascii Scene (As viewed by the eyes of one that lived it.)

by Necromancer, 06-Mar-1998

(Text taken in most part from a previous article in The Product 2, but I had to

update quit a bit of it.)

Ascii Art as an idea coalesced into existence bceause people wanted more. They

wanted more than just your standard Hercules display Atari or your Monochrome

Commodore 64. To meet this demand, one singular artist, whose name is lost to

the annals of history decided to take the plunge. Instead of text, he (or she)

had the ingenuity to use the characters /, \, |, -, _ and whatever else came to

mind to create words. An amazing idea.

And a perfect one. People latched onto this. Anyone that could display text

could display ascii art. It was fast, compact, independant of platform type,

and one group in particular set their sights on it the most, the then-thriving

Amiga scene. It was perfect for Bulletin Board Systems, text-based adventures,

for anything they could think of. Perfect then, and to this day for file

descriptions.

While ascii dominated the Amiga scene, the PC scene was giving birth to an art

medium of their own, ANSI. Colored blocks. Oh, the wonders. But there were

people that weren't satisfied with ANSI, they had seen ascii art, and it had

captivated their imaginations. Some people believe that demand creates supply,

and because of this, ascii was tentatively introduced to the PC scene as an art

form.

Tinyz, a member of the Amiga scene warez group Katharsis, recognized the

demand, and started in on the supply. A one-man art group was created by Tinyz,

and this introduced what had long been Amiga-only art (and previously Commodore

64, but not to the extent of the Amiga scene) into the PC art scene.

Katharsis!Ascii was implemented in March of 1994. Tinyz soon found kindred

spirits, and more artists joined Katharsis!Ascii, now known as plain Katharsis,

or KTS. Others tried to duplicate Tinyz and the way he brought ascii art to the

scene, but to no avail. Tinyz was the first to establish a true ascii-only art

group in the PC art scene. Previous to Tinyz, there were only a few ascii

artists that were as known as Tinyz, one of those being Piromaniak of TRiBE.But

no one had the grip on the proverbial ascii testicles in the PC scene that

KTS!Ascii did. That is, until Remorse rose out of the dirt and mooned Katharsis

with it's hairy collective buttocks.

I, along with Necronite (then of ex-Union, Shiver) felt that our art wasn't the

quality KTS was looking for, so we decided to start our own ascii art group,

dubbed Remorse, and started in October of 1994. Originally, it was meant to be

in homage to Tinyz and KTS, but it didn't quite turn out that way. Remorse

quickly gained members that produced quality art, and was KTS's first actual

competition. Oh, RMRS and KTS didn't realize it at first, but within a few

months, Remorse spurred KTS's release of "THE-NME.TXT," which was one giant

"I'm better than you" directed towards Remorse.

While the Remorse death/rebirth drama was being acted out (I'll exclude that

from this -- you can find the history of Remorse elsewhere), several groups

decided to follow in the footsteps of Remorse and KTS. But it wasn't until the

year-long torpor of Remorse and the birth of Whodini's love child, Trank, that

any of these groups started to thrive. With Trank, Whodini recruited most of

the quality artists from the then-defunct Remorse and several new faces. A few

of the members of these new groups started imitating the style of ts, K-Spiff,

KXMode, Mr. Kite and Lord Jazz. With this wide-spread imitation came a division