Tag Archives: 1987

Two articles on PETSCII graphics for PlayNET, the American online service that later became AOL. A man pushing a sign, and a shamrock. OUTSTANDING! Also – seems like smilies were pretty established at that time.. 

From the Behind the Screens magazine, 1986 and 1987.

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Micro User Volume 4 Number 12, February 1987, via.

The SCA Virus was probably the first Amiga virus (1987). It became extremely common, and later SCA released a software to remove the virus.

There were many clones of the virus with cool names like 666, AIDS, Bad Bytes 4, Big Boss, Deniz Cool, Disk-Terminator, KarlMarx, LSD, MAX and NASA.

Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1987. More details on Wikipedia.

More typewriter animations

Love letter fired from a cannon by Blake Walmsley, 1987.