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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 kazinator »

bregma wrote: post #55
kazinator wrote: post #21

These are nudes, not porn. Is "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli also porn?

Do you think no one has ever wanked to Michelangelo's "David"?

Oh, word has it that was pretty much just you.

But about a third of HN has wanked to John McCarthy's metacircular implementation of Lisp in Lisp, so that is porn.

And, look, he basically even admitted it in History of Lisp, in a paragraph directly referencing the implementation of the above interpreter:

"The unexpected appearance of an interpreter tended to freeze the form of the language, and some of the decisions made rather lightheartedly for the “Recursive functions ...” paper later proved unfortunate. These included the COND notation for conditional expressions which leads to an unnecessary depth of parentheses, and the use of the number zero to denote the empty list NIL and the truth value false. Besides encouraging pornographic programming, giving a special interpretation to the address 0 has caused difficulties in all subsequent implementations."

It was pornographic programming, as admitted by the author, and hackers wank to it in a circle to this day. Open and shut case, pretty much.

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

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Post by wiseowise »

kazinator wrote: post #90
wiseowise wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

You mean, like Tom and Jerry or Coyote and Road Runner ?

Yeah, except with real humans.

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

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Post by Groxx »

california-og wrote: post #36
Groxx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

works pretty reliably

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

Aaah. None of these fancier ones were loading for me earlier for some reason, all I got was the clearly-mono-spaced one in the header.

Yeah, for non-ASCII / more sophisticated stuff, images are kinda the only widely-compatible option without adopting a full terminal emulator worth of javascript.

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

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Post by pino82 »

california-og wrote: post #36
Groxx wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

works pretty reliably

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

None of these points seem to be relevant when it comes to the question about ASCII art as text in html vs image. Most of them feel to be no actual problems at all, but only someone vaguely mentioned some keywords in order to 'find' problems?

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

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Post by pino82 »

DonHopkins wrote: post #18
weMadeThat wrote: post #2

They should make a dating app out of that.

Dick pics like 8=====D would be on the honor system.

It reminds me of sooo many things. Maybe it's part of a kitchen tool. Or gardening, a weapon, you name it. But by no means it looks like a dick. :-/

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

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Post by sureIy »

kazinator wrote: post #88
sureIy wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you actually scroll past the header? There's a ASCII gif of a blowjob

Back in the day, I've actually seen ASCII images and animations that would qualify as porn cartoons, so I don't have to survey the presently referenced materials in detail. The majority that are just naked women in a standing pose showing bush and boobs are not porn. Being naked isn't porn. Otherwise we would ask, "where were you porn" rather than "where were you born".

You said:

> These are nudes, not porn.

I said:

There's definitely porn on that article. There's nothing else to add, because there's definitely porn on that article.

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