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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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1. In this essay I will talk about ASCII art, even though I actually mean ANSIart and Amiga ASCII art. ASCII art technically means the 7-bit ASCII art as specified with the ASCII standard, while Amiga ASCII and ANSI had an extended 8-bit character set and were platform specific. For the purposes of this essay, I will talk about ASCII art, as it is generally used as an umbrella term encompassing all forms of digital text art.
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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2. Illegal / cracked copies of software were known as "warez," which was a typical commodity on BBSs, with their own production and distribution system and cultural practices.
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3. Michael A. Hardagon, [i=-10]Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000[/i] (master's thesis, Concordia University, 2011), 112.
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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4. George Borzyskowski, [i=-10]The Hacker Demo Scene and Its Cultural Artifacts[/i] (School of Design, Curtin University of Technology, 1996).
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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5. Michael Strangelove, [i=-10]The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement[/i] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 57
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6. Michael A. Hardagon, [i=-10]Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000[/i] (master's thesis, Concordia University, 2011), 112.
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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7. Michael A. Hardagon, [i=-10]Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000[/i] (master's thesis, Concordia University, 2011), 112.
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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8. Raquel Meyers, [i=-10]Keys of Fury - Type in Beyond the Scrolling Horizon[/i], WiderScreen, June 15, 2017.
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9. Raquel Meyers, [i=-10]Is It Just Text?[/i] in "Teletext in Europe: From the Analog to the Digital Era", ed. Hallvard Moe and Hilde Van den Buck (Gothenburg: Nordicom, 2016), 35
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ASCII ART: FROM A COMMODITY INTO AN OBSCURITY
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