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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by sbarre on Thursday July 23, 2020 @07:46AM (#23926293)
You can't talk about ANSI and RIP graphics without covering the art scene that existed around that..

A lot of it was banners for pirate boards, but the art that those folks managed to squeeze out of text characters was amazing.

Textfiles.com has a good archive: http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansi/

Tip: use the (?) next to the source file to view the rendered PNG

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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by mrslave on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:52AM (#23926784)
And https://16colo.rs/
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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by christianvozar on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:42PM (#23929969)
The ansi scene is alive today and more vibrant than the past decade. Be sure to pay a visit to 16c and view some of what ansi wizards put out using just those same 16 colors. alpha king / blocktronics
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Re:BBS Graphics History: Pretty awesome, until the web showe... by bane on Thursday July 23, 2020 @02:10PM (#23930330)
Demosplash at CMU still has very vibrant (and very good) ANSI competitions every year. They even had an amazing ANSI-only demo entry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmYJU5Qr8Jw

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