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Travel back in Time for a Vision of the Future

I traveled a couple days a go back in time to the year 1994 to an internet marketing and advertising conference. Wait a moment. Did I say 1994? Yes I did and I am not trying to trick you. See here the video recording of one of the first, if not the first internet marketing […]


Keyboard Text Art From Over Twenty Years Before ASCII

The Modern Merchanix Blog published in March, April and July 2006 three remarkable examples of nineteen thritees and fourties typewriter art, also known as keyboard art. Back to ASCII Art Academy The artwork was found in various preserved issues of the magazine “Popular Science” from 1939 and 1948. The Popular Science Magazine is still publishing […]


History of Text Art Video by RaD Man / ACiD

I “messed around” with the Wikipedia article to ASCII art today. Okay, I did not mess with it, but rather cleaned it up and extended it a bit. This was triggered by a video of a friend of mine who is a well known figure in the underground text art scene with the name Christian […]

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Mindcandy Volume 2: Amiga Demos Finally Here!

It has been 4 years now since the release of Mindcandy Vol.I, which featured PC Demos and was a huge success. The waiting is over and it was absolutely worth it. Mindcandy II – Amiga Demos – is now finally finished as well. I was on their notification list for years and didn’t trust my […]

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Tools of the Trade

I get often asked what tools I am using for my did my ASCII and ANSI Text art. Back to ASCII Art Academy I used first a tool called ANSIDraw which was a piece of junk. The maximum number of lines per ASCII or ANSI the program was able to support was 23 (which is […]