ANSI art is a computer artform using text characters on computers with MS-DOS (before windows) which was popular in the late 80’s and early to mid 90’s. It was mainly used for BBSes, which was software that would allow users to dial into the computer over a phone line and, using a terminal program, interact with it, read/post on forums, and exchanging messages, exchange files. being only text on a terminal, artists never really pictured this as a limitation.

the methods to represent this art are still undecided, but are potentially going to be canvas, lightbox, and scrolling on lcd's w/ navigation.

i'm blogging our progress at http://ansi.notchill.com/, and will be notifying of updates via http://groups.google.com/group/ansi/.

and yes there will be free drinks.

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