ASCII art was truly peak humanity.
This isn’t ascii. There are several Unicode characters in there.
Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.
I really miss how tacky and cute the internet was. Everything is so pretty and cool now but like… Not in a good way, its just bland.
In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)
Well… I was born after that. Even the internet I used had, well, this meme for example. ASCII art was common even when Twitch released in… 2010? The internet I used growing up in the late 2010s was still so inherited from whatever was stable enough to last through the 2000 dotcom bubble or release just after.
All BBSes were on the internet.
No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.
Source: I hosted one until 1997.
This is the most incorrect statement i’ve seen on the internet in a good while
I mean…
It’s technically incorrect…
But not in, like, a metaphysical sense.The point of the internet was to be global, which BBSs were not.
That’s not true, you had to dial their phone number directly back in the day
you can still do that you’re allowed
But I’m not a web designer or website host 😔
that’s why geocities came back :3
It came back?!
From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)
Any medium can become a medium for art if you work hard enough :)
Hotlink a better quality image
![Typewriter art of a butterfly by Stacey Flora](https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Stacey_butterfly.jpg)
holy shit thank you, I was about to ask why they uploaded a goddamn thumbnail lol
This really feels like it is proof of time travel
Is that a Toyota Supra MK3?
rip bash.org
gone but never forgotten
wtf? When did it go down? I swear I was on it just a few months ago…
It went away Beacuse the owner accidentally posted his password online. It was *******
the wisdom of the ancients