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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by enneff on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:21PM (#2036486)
It might be because while RIP graphics were technically superior, they were just another lo fi graphics medium. PCs had better graphics in games etc, while ANSI art has an enduring oldschool quality about it. Also it degrades gracefully to monochrome ASCII. :-)
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Re:The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman by tptacek on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:42PM (#2036506)
High-end ANSI art did not degrade well, for what it's worth. Beyond that, towards the end of the trend, BBS banners were really only legible in TheDraw's high-res mode.
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