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A small art gallery in San Francisco named 20 goto 10 is hosting an exhibit of art created in the 1980s and 1990s before the advent of the Internet. The art was called ANSI and ASCII art, referring to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). The art was created by piecing together keyboard symbols such as letters, numbers, and symbols, which makes the art look like pixilated pictures. ANSI art was created on computers running MSDOS, Microsoft's operating system before Windows. When the pieces were created, only thrity lines of text could be seen at once, so a viewer could never see the entire picture at once and instead had to scroll to see it in its entirety. Many of the ANSI and ASCII artists were inspired by dark comic books and Japanese anime, and after the art faded away, went on to careers in computers or graphic-design. Two artists will be featured at 20 goto20, which is a technology-oriented art gallery owned by Christopher Abad: Chris Lewis, whose online name is Lord Jazz, and Jeff Lindsey, who is known as Somms.
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