N.Z. Bear: When 300 baud was the bomb. Back in the day, everything was ASCII. Some cool boards had little line graphics, but that was about it. Text; words; language was all there was. Pure thought: often misspelled, frequently mispunctuated, and sometimes in ALL CAPS. Glorious. But then there was ANSI, and pretty soon things started to get … pretty. Formatted. You could even make text in different colors. And text that blinked. Sometimes both.
