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Must you young'uns always try and reinvent the wheel?

Thedraw FTW: http://www.syaross.org/thedraw/

Now get off my LAN



>Must you young'uns always try and reinvent the wheel?

Yes. http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=spokeless+wheel

Thedraw? or, excuse me, THEDRAW? I haven't heard of that one before, and the page says next to nothing.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw

TheDraw was used mostly in the BBS scene to create ASCII/ANSI art for the BBS's log in screen and menus. There was an entire sub-community of artists back then.

To be fair, the website is a diagram tool that outputs ASCII, while TheDraw more more like a ASCII/ANSI illustration tool.

I didn't find any galleries of ANSI art out there but this page has a few screenshots: http://icodeforfood.com/shockwave-bbs/


textfiles.com would have quite a lot of ascii art from back then. Memories :)


Looks like they're just honoring the age-old custom of adopting the idea to a new platform.




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