ANSI Art for the Masses Video

Video description: Back before there was the Internet, early cavemen dialed onto computer bulletin board systems, or BBSes, to get their online fix. Many of these boards distinguished themselves with ANSI art, an early form of electronic cave paintings. ANSI was an extension to the even earlier form of caveman communication known as ASCII, used in MS-DOS based computers. It is with great pleasure that we happened upon the San Francisco hacker art gallery called 20 goto 10, where an ANSI art exhibition was in progress. Irina Slutsky talks to curator Kevin Olson, who takes us on a tour of some of the amazing early work of two ANSI artists: lordjazz and somms. ANSI Art for the Masses on Geek Entertainment TV

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