vt100 slowcat

I've been going though Usenet archives from archive.org:

https://archive.org/download/usenet-alt

and finding old ASCII art. There's a ton of still art there (and a lot
of spam), the animations are not well preserved. It's ironic that people
used to post things like:

    From: [email protected] (Colin Douthwaite)
    Subject: WARNING: Control Codes
    Date: 1996/09/15



    ===================================================================

				   WARNING

    ====================================================================

    PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control or Animation Codes to 
    ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.  

    It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.

    If you wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !


(Side note: Colin Douthwaite memorial, archived from Geocites, here:
  https://www.oocities.org/spunk1111/colin3.htm
)

Because the archives have deleted the UUENCODEd content:

    From: [email protected] (Kai Voelcker)
    Subject: bike.vt.z, part 1/1
    Date: 1996/10/24
    Message-ID: <[email protected]>#1/1
    X-Deja-AN: 191831958
    newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation


    An ansi animation collected from this newsgroup some times ago. Use
    :decode or :unshar to extract. The resulting file is gzip'ed. Invoke
    zcat to view.

    #!/bin/sh
[... shar comments romved ... ]
    part=1
    pfile=bike.vt.z
    file=bike.vt.z
    psize=1316
    sed -e '/^BEGIN/d' -e '/^END/d' << \End_of_Section > $pfile.$part
    BEGIN------------ bike.vt.z ------------ part 1/1 ---
    begin 644 bike.vt.z
    <uuencoded_portion_removed>
    DQAXS]IBQQXP]9NPQ8X\9>\S88\;N]GK\(&#_`/J_L4T;*0``
    `
    end
    END-------------- bike.vt.z ------------ part 1/1 ---
    End_of_Section
    size=`wc -c $pfile.$part | awk '{ print $1 }'`
[... rest of shar file removed ... ]

and left the posts with the raw control characters alone.

I've found a few animations that I already had, and many like that one
that are no longer there, and a few that I had not seen before. I've
been adding them to my collection in the slowcat repo at github:

https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat

I'll be adding more, I expect, but probably not for while. It's a bit
slow going looking for intact animations. And sad seeing so many links
to dead ftp / gopher / web sites.

Elijah
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Cha Cha Cha,
Colin Douthwaite