These are nudes, not porn.
Is "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli also porn?
ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
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Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#22It's kind of funny that every example the article shows is a screenshot or video. Not a single one was actual ASCII text in the HTML...
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Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#23I wish the article mentioned Computer Nude (1967) by Ken Knowlton. It isn't ASCII, but it is a text mosaic. It was widely circulated at the time, was the first full frontal nude printed in The New York Times, and was somewhat important in the development of computer graphics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/technology/ken-knowlton-d...
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#24I actuallly prefer this over the stuff they have now. It’s part art, part sleaze
It's funny. Some of the physical wall art I collect has a similar character of walking the line of tacky, like a psychopathic 16-year-old bully's pin-up spank fodder from the '80s, to exuding inherent value independent of sexuality. It goes between the authentic Soviet propaganda posters and the defunct radio station stickers signed by Frank Zappa.
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#25It's kind of funny that every example the article shows is a screenshot or video. Not a single one was actual ASCII text in the HTML...
It's not trivial to display ASCII art as text in html. There's so many ways to mess it up that unless the site is dedicated to ASCII art, a simple image is really preferable.
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Literally from the article, emphasis is mine: > An ASCII artist who goes by the screen name “goto80” told me in an email that, according to his research, the first modern text-based porn was probably sent via teletext. Teletext was a late 70s pre-internet technology for sending text and graphics to a television set, that never quite took off in the way people thought it would at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
What point are you trying to make? Arpanet is not the internet and the internet is not Arpanet.
The claim wasn't that it predates any wide area network. It was that it predates the Internet, a specific well known wide area network.
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#27Due to the effective destruction of the printer ribbon and consequently effects on printer life cycle, printing the overstrike art was banned at my uni in 1979. The ops had one of the multi sheet 132 column nude printouts on the wall for a while but after complaints it was removed.
(Tops 10, chain printer)
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#28It's kind of funny that every example the article shows is a screenshot or video. Not a single one was actual ASCII text in the HTML...
It's not trivial to display ASCII art as text in html. There's so many ways to mess it up that unless the site is dedicated to ASCII art, a simple image is really preferable.
works pretty reliably
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#29These are nudes, not porn. Is "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli also porn?
American culture is very prudish, courtesy of its Puritanical roots which even today cause us to label a woman sucking off an enormous penis (like in "Deep ASCII", referenced in article) as so-called "pornography".
Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
#30These are nudes, not porn. Is "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli also porn?
American culture is very prudish, courtesy of its Puritanical roots which even today cause us to label a woman sucking off an enormous penis (like in "Deep ASCII", referenced in article) as so-called "pornography".
Yeah, but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.
That is the thing with censorship, it isn't consequent.