Labels:text | screenshot | software | font OCR: Ansi and the Internet For most of us the first contact with Ansi was quite Bean similar: Dos, Terminate, ADTD and the number of you favourite artboard. The well known noise from your modem. A 14400 connect and right after that the first colored blocks on the screen. The internet can't beat that. After you downloaded the first ansi-packs you get to know that there are more intense and insane painters out there. You hear something about Aciddraw and right when you run it for the first time you are captured. At first you draw ISSUE two some Ansis for your local artboard but someday you come to the idea that you could do better than the sysop - you start your own board. all quit on the eastern These biographys are quite typical for the Ansi-szene in front ? general: Boards and the medium Ansi were in a close relationship. So, when - all of a sudden - the internet was - what's so fascinating there, the boards were dying and in 1997 it became very about ansi? popular to announce the coming death of the ansiszene. But 1998 proved us to be wrong. It seems as if nothing ever - feedback on issue #1 happened: there are packs for download again - and some of them do really kick ass. Groups like iCE release Ansi again, - german artscene others release in a reguar rhythm and retired groups strike back from the dead (e.g. Force). - kitchen accidents / beam artcompo #2 The question remains who was responsible for that. It's neither Halaster with his 'call for resurection' nor any - ANSI and the internet other artist who blames this or that for the starving of the ansi-szene. In my eyes it was the szene itself that needed - speedfreak & kyp some time to explore the possibilies of the internet. Of - from newbie to ansi-star Ansi and the internet Poti (BlackMaiden) - beam webcheck Misha 98
