#newschool ASCII

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Mistigram: Hmmm... here's some food for thought! This contemplative #ASCIIart adaptation of #TheThinker, the crowning element in #AugusteRodin's #GatesOfHell, was made by @littlebitspace and included in the new fine art-themed MIST0424 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen of a trio of skeletons navigating the darkest time of year together was drawn by @littlebitspace in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

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Wouldn't you know it, we have to go and change the sign that currently reads: "It has been [33] days since a Mistigris release" back to zero… introducing the MIST0624 unthemed computer art collection, featuring over a hundred pieces of #textmode and texty-adjacent vintage computer imagery! We'll be sharing highlights here on social media, but if you'd like to take a big bite of it all in one go, you can download the artpack for local enjoyment via our homepage or browse it from the @sixteencolors artpack gallery.

Many thanks to Abstrakt of Fire Graphics for the guest submission of this striking #ASCIIart illustration used as its FILE_ID.DIZ!

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Mistigram: this rather abstract green newschool #ASCIIart logo for Savage Exile BBS was drawn by Plastic as part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 27 years ago this month. (If you like it, he drew a dozen more that look exactly the same!)

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Mistigram: this pointy #ASCIIart logo by @atonalosprey reads #Leviathan, indicating the Biblical sea monster. Looks like it might describe a badass metal band, but actually the design comes from a 2012 documentary of the same name about the fishing industry. Hardcore! This piece was included in the creepy new MIST1023 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo for Geekboy's BBS "Stupidmop" was drawn by Dead Soul in the style of his Mist ASCII colleague Weird, and was released in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo by Plastic celebrates the perennial "number 3" underground PC computer art group, CiA... however torn the artist may be about the success of the logo's specific execution. (Say what you will, it is uniquely legible among its crop!) This piece was part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel 26 years ago this month, included in the FOS-0197 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen for Acolyte's BBS "Flatscan" was drawn by Frgnfruz and included in the MIST0797 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this stylish newschool #ASCIIart logo for "Purge" was drawn by Dead Soul and included in the MIST0897 artpack collection released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo for Distorted, a BBS apparently run by Filth in his CiA days, was drawn by Plastic. It's not really much more legible than the predecessors I have shared with you in recent days, but I appreciate the intensity fluctuation of the dark blue characters against their light blue backdrop. This was also part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in their FOS-0197 artpack collection, released 26 years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo / BBS menu for "Juice" BBS was drawn by the Iconoclast and included in the Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel 26 years ago, in the FOS-0197 artpack collection.

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Mistigram: this pointy newschool #ASCIIart logo for #DoveNet was one of several pieces of textmode iconography drawn by CodeFenix of @ConChaosBBS in the new MIST0223 artpack collection on that topic, the Dove-Net QWK messaging network for enthusiasts of SynchroNet BBS systems.

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Mistigram: yes, we have fond memories of playing Nibbles, too! This squiggly newschool #ASCIIart logo celebrating our own fine selves was drawn by Publius Emeritus II and included in the MIST0220 artpack collection released three years ago this month.

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Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo for Publius Enigma's BBS "The Space Farm" was drawn by Genocide and included in the Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel, collected in the FOS-0197 artpack collection.

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Mistigam: another artefact from our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in January of 1997, these #ASCIIart logos appeared (with a load of short fiction and other textual nonsense) in the infofile of the FOS-0197 artpack -- the "just the facts, ma'am" one up top by the artist known only as his embedded [cs!] credit, the lower "to compensate, whimsical enough for two logos" one drawn by our own Publius Enigma.

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Mistigram: our guest Amy of #Pizzatoe keeps things Halloweeny with this spooky outsider #ASCIIart tableau featuring a couple of Jack o' Lanterns grinning in a blasted graveyard while bats flitter across the swollen orange harvest moon and Ghostface gets his witch's hat blown off by a stiff breeze. This piece was included in the spooky new MIST1024 artpack collection.