I think you could easily find a ton in some usenet groups... lessee,
a quick search of "ASCII art" on google groups brought up this very
interesting post, which has some version of ASCII art's history, and
includes reference to many newsgroups:
========================
Traffic Statistics
========================
+-- Messages per month
|
! +-- Percentage crossposted
| |
| | + Propagation:
| | | how many sites
| | | receive this group
| | | at all
| | |
| | | +-- Share:
| | | | % of news readers
| | | | who read this group.
V V V V
Feb 94
alt.ascii-art 733 2% 36% 1.4%
Mar 95
alt.ascii-art 600 8% 47% 1.0%
alt.ascii-art.animation 128 32% 35% 0.2%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 307 42% 37% 0.5%
rec.arts.ascii 217 13% 53% 0.3%
May 95
alt.ascii-art 413 9% 48% 0.7%
alt.ascii-art.animation 96 15% 36% 0.2%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 200 49% 37% 0.4%
rec.arts.ascii 180 11% 55% 0.3%
Sep 95
alt.ascii-art 905 8%
alt.ascii-art.animation 61 34%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 110 100%
rec.arts.ascii 309 5%
Oct 95
alt.ascii-art 1062 26%
alt.ascii-art.animation 152 16%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 123 100%
rec.arts.ascii 282 18%
Feb 96
alt.ascii-art 788 15%
alt.ascii-art.animation 53 12%
rec.arts.ascii 274 35%
Apl 96
alt.ascii-art 804 15%
alt.ascii-art.animation 74 76%
rec.arts.ascii 185 24%
Jun 96
alt.ascii-art 707 29%
alt.ascii-art.animation 89 68%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 104 100%
rec.arts.ascii 35 65%
Jul 96
alt.ascii-art 1100 23%
alt.ascii-art.animation 95 54%
alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 187 100%
rec.arts.ascii 81 9%
=-> wow, that's *cool* ;^) Good luck finding all that content, Jamie!
-BenB
PS - that was a clip from the second result, linked. The first result
has a lot of links in the message, but was posted in '96 8*/
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:05, Linux Rocks ! wrote:
> That reminds me... I was looking for a source of lots of ASCII art... anyone
> know where to find lots of it (fairly easy to download) I found a few
> websites with lots, but you have to load each one manually... I want to make
> another database of it for fortune...
>
> Jamie
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