[GreenKeys] Misnomer of Teletype pictures!

Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:00:57 -0400

Well, if that wasn't RTTY art then I'm not sure why we call
this the GREENKEYS REFLECTOR. Does anyone have green keys?
  Just pondering.
    John, K2AGI


John Foust wrote:
> 
> At 10:48 PM 4/29/2002 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >It always makes me cringe to see "ASCII art" or anything along
> >that line. I don't know who started using that term but it sure
> >gets misused.
> 
> I wouldn't be a misnomer when applied to art that was made
> with an ASCII-based printer or terminal, right?  :-)  There are
> scads of people who do make purely ASCII art, as I'm sure
> you know.
> 
> Sure, much of the early teletype-based art was later converted
> to ASCII for use on other machines, but glyph-based art (for
> lack of a better term) goes back at least to the invention of
> the typewriter, if you want to get away from the requirement
> that the artwork be machine-reproducible.  What's a better term?
> "Text art"?
> 
> - John
> 
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