Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens

[MilnerRoute]

https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/10/31/2038237/recycling-ansi-art-tracing-the-origins-of-bbs-logon-screens

[westurner]

Oh, computer art!

Computer art scene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_art_scene

ANSI art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

And a YouTube video example of ASCII art:

"Coding Trance Music (Full Narrated)" by Switch Angel https://youtube.com/watch?v=GWXCCBsOMSg&is=NPh4gB8zLDKNCF4N

[westurner → westurner]

Modem > Dialup > History > 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#1990s

"Dialup modem connecting" https://youtube.com/watch?v=jpMrTxMV6E4&is=YbKKAGOQ6n4VidnJ

And then dialup topped out at 56.6 kbps (56K). 56.6 kbps is equal to 0.0000566 gigabits per second (Gbps).

[ChrisArchitect]

Actual article: https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/10/25/recycling-ansi-art... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50238020)