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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)

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Post by ochrist »

stephenr wrote: post #7
dualboot wrote: post #6

Predates the web but not the internet.

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.

Teletext is still used in several countries.

Also, I have seen ascii art on telex-type machines. These are limited by using only five bits, and so you can only use lowercase characters (or uppercase, but not both).

There are some examples here: http://artscene.textfiles.com/rtty/RTTYCOM/

Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

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Post by california-og »

diggan wrote: post #67
california-og wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For whitespace and for the simplest ASCII sure, but for anything a bit more complex you might have problems with 1. HTML reserved characters like and \. 2. overflowing content 3. displaying ASCII made with special encodings and characters sets, like code page 437 4. displaying nonprintable (control) characters 5. displaying colors 6. text preprocessors messing up the formatting

Most of those are solved with wrapping it in both and , and #5 I don't think is even part of "ASCII art" anymore as it wouldn't be just ASCII anymore, but rich-text.

What do you mean? Add far as I know 
 doesn't help with any of those?
Color is very much a part of ASCII art, if we consider ASCII to mean a broader range of different technologies. Just check the stuff in the article, or the stuff on https://16colo.rs/ site.

Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

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Post by wiseowise »

pjmlp wrote: post #30
khazhoux wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> but blowing up people on TV shows, with blood and body parts going everywhere is perfectly alright.

Don't worry, it is becoming "not alright" already. Completely sanitized movies where people are being thrown like a ragdoll, land on asphalt face down and then walk it off like they were slapped by a baby.

Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

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Post by wiseowise »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #33
pjmlp wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Different cultures each have their own standards for what is and is not considered offensive, and each culture thinks that its standards are correct. That isn't hypocrisy, it's just how this whole topic works. There are no two human cultures in history which have entirely agreed on what is and isn't offensive, so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically? It strikes me as extremely narrow-minded.

> so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically

Who is the main exporter of entertainment in the world?

Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

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Post by anthk »

wiseowise wrote: post #77
bigstrat2003 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Different cultures each have their own standards for what is and is not considered offensive, and each culture thinks that its standards are correct. That isn't hypocrisy, it's just how this whole topic works. There are no two human cultures in history which have entirely agreed on what is and isn't offensive, so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically? It strikes me as extremely narrow-minded.

> so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically Who is the main exporter of entertainment in the world?

90% of Europe doesn't care about America's prudeness. We see you as socially outdated and far from what you are trying to show us from Hollywood.

Re: ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

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Post by wiseowise »

anthk wrote: post #79
wiseowise wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so why do people feel the need to pick on Americans specifically Who is the main exporter of entertainment in the world?

90% of Europe doesn't care about America's prudeness. We see you as socially outdated and far from what you are trying to show us from Hollywood.

I'm from Europe. Whether it is seen socially outdated or not is orthogonal to the fact that US is the main exporter.

Just go through your cinema/streaming service and count how many of the movies/shows/music are from US.

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