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2024-03-25
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ASCII made with the proportional Arial font for AOL by dair, gumby, kione, triped and xkurdtx circa 1998. source

More AOL ASCII.

2024-02-27
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Logos for the Pepsi software, by various authors. Pepsi was a software (“proggie”) to make ASCII art (“macros”) for AOL. It was made by cpride and dc, 1997-1998. Since AOL used the proportional Arial font, it wasn’t possible to use a standard ASCII art software.

More Arial ASCII and also here.

2017-04-12
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Tottenham Court Road tube station in London, with mosaics by Eduardo Paolozzi, 1986. The restoration was just recently finished.

2014-12-27
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Gruppo 9999 (Giorgio Birelli, Carlo Caldini, Fabrizio Fiumi, Paolo Galli).
h/t Miska Knapek

2014-12-14
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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.

2014-08-29
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PlayNET was an American online system for Commodore 64, launched in 1983. It used PETSCII and pixel graphics. It was bought by QuantumLink, who later turned into AOL. 

h/t: Tim Koch

2014-02-11
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Theory of Relativity , Protocol Sentences and Memory Matrix by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1967.

2014-02-11
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The mosaic patterned walls of the Tottenham Court Road tube station by Eduardo Paolozzi (1982)

2012-08-07
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Examples of AOL Macro Fonts, made here. These are ASCII fonts created specifically for the 10p Arial font of AOL in the 1990s. While most ASCII uses a monospaced font, this doesn’t (and neither does the Japanese Shift_JIS art). Specific tools for AOL ASCII such as Pepsi were developed.

In the late 90’s, little hacking programs known as “proggies” became popular in the underground warez scene of AOL (examples: AOHell and Fate-X). As these programs became more popular, many begain to feature “Macro Shops”, which were ASCII Art development areas. The user could develop their own ASCII Art and then scroll the text in an AOL chat room.

To generate your own logos and get more info go to INTERNET-LINK. More examples of AOL-style ASCII art here.