• ch00f@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      This isn’t ascii. There are several Unicode characters in there.

      Which means this image probably isn’t from 1993.

      • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        ah yes, the ancient ascii characters of mathematical element of ∈ and contained in ∋. ^ but ∧, the fu フ from japanese ascii, subset ⊂ and superset ⊃. Chinese day 日? This kanji ヽ. Very equal ≡. That ∀ looking beak thing …
        0/10 no korean ascii

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      In 1993 it might have been on a BBS and not the internet at all. :)

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        10 months ago

        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.

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          10 months ago

          No. Most were direct dial servers. Some used FIDOnet for inter-BBS messaging.

          Source: I hosted one until 1997.

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                10 months ago

                Well that’s certainly not true in many practical senses.
                Was ARPANET global? That was a proto internet but certainly wasn’t ever intended to be global.
                The full scope of undersea cables and satellites were probably not considered in the early days of Internet Proper. Even today, there are all kinds of barriers to the internet truly being considered to be “global”, from companies semi-benignly tailoring their content, to China just having a completely separate internet. With licensing and local laws and firewalls and taxes and asynchronous infrastructure development and paywalls, I don’t think you can say that “global” is the property that sets the internet apart from BBSes.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    From 1898 on a typewriter. ;)

    Any medium can become a medium for art if you work hard enough :)

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        10 months ago

        It went away Beacuse the owner accidentally posted his password online. It was *******

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    2 months ago

    I refuse to believe it. We didn’t have Unicode back then and there is absolutely no way that upside down A, Japanese kana, and mathematical set operators all ended up in the same codepage.