well... Ive spent 3 or 4 hours collecting and making the files into fortuneable text files... and Ive only done letters a-c on that website... Im tired!
Jamie On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:45 pm, Linux Rocks! wrote: : I looked on a newsgroup for quotes a few days ago... found like 3 quotes! : it was kinda sucky... looks like ascii art is better! : Im currently on http://www.chris.com/ascii/ : and have found a tun (im working on the letter B right now, and have about : 50 text windows open!) it will take a while to compile all this together, : and put % signs in the proper places :( : : The ascii art will likely be the best one, I have something like 1300 : palendromes! : : Jamie : : On Thursday 23 January 2003 11:13 pm, Ben Barrett wrote: : : I think you could easily find a ton in some usenet groups... lessee, : : a quick search of "ASCII art" on google groups brought up this very : : interesting post, which has some version of ASCII art's history, and : : includes reference to many newsgroups: : : : : ======================== : : Traffic Statistics : : ======================== : : : : +-- Messages per month : : : : ! +-- Percentage crossposted : : : : | | + Propagation: : : | | | how many sites : : | | | receive this group : : | | | at all : : | | | : : | | | +-- Share: : : | | | | % of news readers : : | | | | who read this : : | | | | group. : : : : V V V V : : : : Feb 94 : : alt.ascii-art 733 2% 36% 1.4% : : : : : : Mar 95 : : alt.ascii-art 600 8% 47% 1.0% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 128 32% 35% 0.2% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 307 42% 37% 0.5% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 217 13% 53% 0.3% : : : : May 95 : : alt.ascii-art 413 9% 48% 0.7% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 96 15% 36% 0.2% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 200 49% 37% 0.4% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 180 11% 55% 0.3% : : : : Sep 95 : : alt.ascii-art 905 8% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 61 34% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 110 100% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 309 5% : : : : Oct 95 : : alt.ascii-art 1062 26% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 152 16% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 123 100% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 282 18% : : : : : : : : Feb 96 : : alt.ascii-art 788 15% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 53 12% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 274 35% : : : : Apl 96 : : alt.ascii-art 804 15% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 74 76% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 185 24% : : : : Jun 96 : : alt.ascii-art 707 29% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 89 68% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 104 100% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 35 65% : : : : : : Jul 96 : : alt.ascii-art 1100 23% : : alt.ascii-art.animation 95 54% : : alt.binaries.pictures.ascii 187 100% : : : : rec.arts.ascii 81 9% : : : : : : : : =-> wow, that's *cool* ;^) Good luck finding all that content, Jamie! : : : : -BenB : : : : PS - that was a clip from the second result, linked. The first result : : has a lot of links in the message, but was posted in '96 8*/ : : : : On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:05, Linux Rocks ! wrote: : : > That reminds me... I was looking for a source of lots of ASCII art... : : > anyone know where to find lots of it (fairly easy to download) I found : : > a few websites with lots, but you have to load each one manually... I : : > want to make another database of it for fortune... : : > : : > Jamie : : : : _______________________________________________ : : Eug-LUG mailing list : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two. -- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
