Genesis: Source Code by cvrad
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Description
Hi all,
"Long before the Internet escaped from the lab, connected the planet and redefined what it meant to use a computer..." there was a brave and pioneering band of computer users who spent their time, money and sanity setting up their home computers and phone lines to welcome anyone who called. By using a modem, anyone else who knew the phone number of these computers could connect to them, leave messages, send and receive files.... and millions did.
above quote from You Tube site link below
Explanation:
people posted art based on the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) character codes which was a predecessor to the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) people made images like this one above
They had NO HELP of any type of conversion program just a simple character block type text editor if even that or just a simple text editor and there imagination the beginning of what we know today as computer art
Execution:
This is an experiment using a conversion program I found on line for free. I may post more of these later on. this was a 200x200 thumbnail but you actually gain detail back by blowing it up as a ASCII image.
Inspiration:
Just watched a very good documentary about BBSes. by a computer historian by the name of Jason Scott check it out below. it is not technical it is more about the people and how they related to each other and the growing fascination at that time of being in this subculture made up of general users, sysops, hackers, crackers and and the close sense of community and rivalry they felt about there hobby.
Documentary links below:
BBS The.Documentary Part 1 - Baud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
BBS The.Documentary Part 2 - Sysops and Users
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aSPwPqHmrU
BBS The.Documentary Part 3 - Make It Pay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN8V1H5QFg4
BBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm6EFYktRQ
BBS The.Documentary Part 5 - Artscene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9yejh92tc
BBS The.Documentary Part 6 - HPAC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhmM0LONW7g
BBS The.Documentary Part 7 - No Carrier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bao0Owbdj8s
BBS The.Documentary Part 8 - Compression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zvFeHtcxuA
Further Interaction:
For those of you that grew up in this time like myself it is sure to stir feelings of nostalgia and yearning to the simpler days of computing. would love to hear some of the stories from that time relating to early computing in general like what was you first computer what was the first game you ever bought what was the first art or music program did you use did you visit the BBs' do you remember the time before the internet took everything over. please Site Mail or send a comment.
HINT:
To VIEW NORMALLY step FAR Away from the SCREEN about 2-3 feet!! let your eyes feel in the blanks
ZOOM in for full detail appreciation
Chris. Thanks for looking
Comments (10)
cvrad
My Story: My first computer was a Radio Shack MC10 Color Computer Processor was a Motorola MC6803 running at .089Mhz 4k RAM standard, upgradeable to 16k (I only had the 4k) The screen resolution was 32x16 meaning 32 characters across by 16 lines down and no graphics modes just special characters you could call up using ASCII or the right key combination. I had a B&w TV for a monitor (It never really bothered me that it was a color computer and I was using a B&W Television for it) and a Radio Shack Cassette Player for the Data Storage every time the washer or dryer would change modes or be turned on my data would get corrupted and I would have to save or load the file again. (about 5 to 10 min wait for less than 4 k of data) Me and a friend wrote computer animations using "PRINT" statements and and lot of "FOR NEXT" loops even having the lyrics of the song as it went along highlighting the chorus and such. Until we started running out of memory making the programs do more and more. I didn't even realize it till just now thinking about it but that was early early computer animation of a sort!
eekdog
amazing how far we've come my friend, very cool low res looking tv momitor look. my first computer was a commadore 64.
Faemike55
my second computer was an Atari 130XE wow! look how far we've come Great image
magnus073
This is so cool Chris, and I very much enjoyed the story behind it.
Valeriya
Great work!!
Drakkendark
Very cool image.
Oskargirl
Great work.....I remember those days...when the phone was busy with the computer.....and the rest of the family had to wait for it to finish doing what ever it was doing.......Thanks for all the computer stuff you taught me.. (-:
three_grrr
wow, this is so cool. I remember the good old days!
tennesseecowgirl
wonderful work!
Blechnik
Oh, really, really nice. Those characters produce kind of great textures. (My first computer, in 1990, was an abandoned robotron PC-1715 with a 2.5-MHz-Z-80-CPU, 64k RAM and 80 columns by 32 lines alphanumeric display - no colors, just light green on dark green background. Before, I had spent quite some time playing around with the KC-85-3, its operating system called HC-CAOS. However the 1715 was soon followed by an A-7150, which already has a 40-MB-hard-disk and brings a total weight of 40 kilograms onto the desk. But this one is a special version with cyrillic characters.)