Since I’ve been spending the last few months with all my free time at a command line, pretty much all text mode, I knew I needed to spice things up with some old ASCII art. I actually planned on requesting it from a still-producing/releasing artist, but everyone’s old and everyone’s busy. So I decided to bust out some of that old 80×25 text mode art myself. I’ve run into some old scenesters along the way, and I guess I might “be back.” Who knows. What I do know is I feel like I’m back home.

I’ve been in and out of the text mode “art scene” since I was 14 years old, and while this might not blow your socks off, I’m super happy with it. Most importantly, I’ve got an identity, so I can keep building on my floppy web project.

It’s been great finding out there’s a whole crowd of people doing what I’m doing, stepping away from social media and carving out their own corners of the internet. The indie web is back (no, really, it’s a thing, the #indieweb). I’ve also been diving into the Gemini protocol, a group of enthusiasts pushing the web backwards in the best possible way. No JavaScript, no graphics, just raw text and ASCII.