A Guide for Reading Concrete Poetry
(Link via the Internet Archives, the original site is now something else. I wanted to save the post so I have made my own archive of the contents here.)
… Read the rest(Based on Edmund Feldman’s Critical Performance)
Concrete poetry is poetry in which the text itself forms a picture on the page.
The original source for this post is gone/ broken. I could not find the post elsewhere. Keeping as an archive here so the information is not lost.
… Read the rest1963: ASCII Debuts – By Mary Brandel – 04/12/99
If it weren’t for a particular development in 1963, we wouldn’t have e-mail and there would be no World Wide Web.
… Read the restTHE SEMI-OFFICIAL, SEMI-SERIOUS
ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN
AGAINST GRATUITOUS GRAPHICS ON THE WEB!
I have noticed a disturbing trend in software of late, a trend exemplified in the Web. This is the tendency to decide that if you have enough cool looking graphics, you don’t have to have any real content. This trend, on the web at least, has resulted a glut of graphics heavy, worthless pages, that take a million years to download and once you have them, you wish you hadn’t wasted the time, and don’t even get me started on PC games!
The site was Go Make it Happy but it isn’t there any more. I was happy seeing a big, consumer oriented company like CocaCola using ASCII art. Even though it’s computer generated – there is a wonderfully large amount of it. Note – these were all watermarked by software I was trying. It was not intentional.… Read the rest