Recycling ANSI Art: Tracing the Origins of BBS Logon Screens

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By EditorDavidOct 31, 2026, 4:50 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
BBS-era "door" games are preserved by the site Break Into Chat, along with their history. Now the site's actually traced the origins of several ANSI art screens in the 1980s and "how different people later transformed the original images," starting from one of the most popular bulletin board systems in St.…

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