Re: vt100 slowcat

On 19/09/2021 22:04, Eli the Bearded wrote:
 > 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 !
 >
[snip]
 > 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
 > ------


Hi ... and what a rabbit hole that is! :) ... took me ~ 1 week to go thru

the removal of uue stuff is a sacrilege
and noticed the practice ended around 1998/1999
... shame they didn't remove the base64 sex-spam (6-off jpeg) posts

all i managed to find (intact) was :

dragon.uu	big
moebis.uu	tiny

bunny.vt	straight flush
undasea.vt	unda da sea
daylife.vt	day in the life

vicki.ans	colour?

flying.pl	r l samuell

also seems like archiving stops around 2011
[currently going thru the a.a-a mbox file]
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