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Posted by HarshawJ in Musings
on Monday, September 26, 2005 01:57:24 PM
in a "No particular mood" mood.

Bygone Art

Years ago there used to be a thing called BBS's. Remember those? Well, one of the things that was uniquely BBS'ish was the ASCII art. These were pictures painted with the standard computer characters and some colors. It was quite amazing the quality of the picture these artist could paint (me being one of them) using these primative standards.

So, I was wonder if there was anything like this online? Is there and equivalent in the HTML world? Using just HTML and CSS, what kind of picture can you create? I tried my hand at a quick piece, but I can foresee doing this again with mre detail. Here is an example of what I mean:

This did not turn out exactly as I expected, but you get the idea. It would be interesting to see what you can do in terms of HTML art with a little creativity. I just through this one together.

_-= The + Mage =-_

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Posted by TxRose on
09/26/05 09:07:40 PM

I know a little bit of HTML... just what I have self taught myself...and, since I haven't consistently utilized it, or people have subbed in codes to replace it, it would seem that I have lost some of my touch in HTML. I used to have some cheat notes on this; perhaps, I will dig them up again soon...

TxRose

Posted by HarshawJ on
09/26/05 09:31:29 PM

No need... it was one of those thoughts that entered my mind because I used to be an ASCII artist back in the day. And it occured to me that you could do something similar with HTML. I was wondering if anyone had heard of "HTML art" was am I the first to think of it...

- JB

Posted by TxRose on
09/26/05 09:37:41 PM

I am not quite familiar with HTML as being art; however, with anything that there is some degree of room for creativity, there is always some room for art to stem from it as well.