XPost: alt.ascii-art.animation   
   From: colin.randall2@gmail.com   
      
   On 19/09/2021 22:04, Eli the Bearded wrote:   
    > I've been going though Usenet archives from archive.org:   
    >   
    > https://archive.org/download/usenet-alt   
    >   
    > and finding old ASCII art. There's a ton of still art there (and a lot   
    > of spam), the animations are not well preserved. It's ironic that people   
    > used to post things like:   
    >   
    >      From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)   
    >      Subject: WARNING: Control Codes   
    >      Date: 1996/09/15   
    >   
    >      ===================================================================   
    >   
    > 				   WARNING   
    >   
    >      ====================================================================   
    >   
    >      PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control or Animation Codes to   
    >      ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.   
    >   
    >      It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.   
    >   
    >      If you wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !   
    >   
   [snip]   
    > Because the archives have deleted the UUENCODEd content:   
    >   
    >      From: kai@fantaghiro.deceiver.org (Kai Voelcker)   
    >      Subject: bike.vt.z, part 1/1   
    >      Date: 1996/10/24   
    >      Message-ID: #1/1   
    >      X-Deja-AN: 191831958   
    >      newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation   
    >   
    >      An ansi animation collected from this newsgroup some times ago. Use   
    >      :decode or :unshar to extract. The resulting file is gzip'ed. Invoke   
    >      zcat to view.   
    >   
    >      #!/bin/sh   
    > [... shar comments romved ... ]   
    >      part=1   
    >      pfile=bike.vt.z   
    >      file=bike.vt.z   
    >      psize=1316   
    >      sed -e '/^BEGIN/d' -e '/^END/d' << \End_of_Section > $pfile.$part   
    >      BEGIN------------ bike.vt.z ------------ part 1/1 ---   
    >      begin 644 bike.vt.z   
    >         
    >      DQAXS]IBQQXP]9NPQ8X\9>\S88\;N]GK\(&#_`/J_L4T;*0``   
    >      `   
    >      end   
    >      END-------------- bike.vt.z ------------ part 1/1 ---   
    >      End_of_Section   
    >      size=`wc -c $pfile.$part | awk '{ print $1 }'`   
    > [... rest of shar file removed ... ]   
    >   
    > and left the posts with the raw control characters alone.   
    >   
    > I've found a few animations that I already had, and many like that one   
    > that are no longer there, and a few that I had not seen before. I've   
    > been adding them to my collection in the slowcat repo at github:   
    >   
    > https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat   
    >   
    > I'll be adding more, I expect, but probably not for while. It's a bit   
    > slow going looking for intact animations. And sad seeing so many links   
    > to dead ftp / gopher / web sites.   
    >   
    > Elijah   
    > ------   
      
      
   Hi ... and what a rabbit hole that is! :) ... took me ~ 1 week to go thru   
      
   the removal of uue stuff is a sacrilege   
   and noticed the practice ended around 1998/1999   
   ... shame they didn't remove the base64 sex-spam (6-off jpeg) posts   
      
   all i managed to find (intact) was :   
      
   dragon.uu	big   
   moebis.uu	tiny   
      
   bunny.vt	straight flush   
   undasea.vt	unda da sea   
   daylife.vt	day in the life   
      
   vicki.ans	colour?   
      
   flying.pl	r l samuell   
      
   also seems like archiving stops around 2011   
   [currently going thru the a.a-a mbox file]   
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