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Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens
TL;DRResearchers traced the origins of 1980s BBS logon screen artwork and how it evolved.
Why it matters: Documents forgotten digital history and shows how early internet communities remixed and spread creative work.
BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people later transformed the original images," starting from one of the most popular…
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