Chinese ANSI by Yahoo.
Chinese ANSI by Yahoo.
Chinese ANSI by Yahoo.

CloneWorld BBS, 1988.
This is the welcome screen for the late Mike Cohen’s Cloneworld BBS in Matawan NJ. It was heavily animated, upon logging into the BBS it was completely drawn from the bottom up using ANSI animation starting with a black screen. The text (Welcome to Cloneworld etc) was drawn last, swooping in from the lower right and swirling around the screen until it landed as seen here. Our BBSes were local phone calls to each other, and Mike and I became good friends and spent a lot of time on the phone discussing BBSing, computers, and cars.

System Shock. Amiga BBS in Florens, Italy, 1997.

Chinese ANSI by Yahoo, 2011.
ASCII Space by reaktorplayer, 2012. Abstract and eerie.
Blocktronics WTF4, the world’s longest ANSI by Blocktronics, 2014. 4,636 lines of text – equivalent to a 7-storey building and takes 12 minutes to watch. Watch it here.
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