#dos era

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I remember my grandmother, who was unusually computer-savvy for for someone near retirement in ye olde DOS days, being delighted with some simple ASCII art program called billcat

She had it loaded into her computer's hard drive and if you typed billcat on the command line, a simple rendition of a cat's head with a blinking red U for a tongue would appear

I have no idea if this was the work of someone in her office or if it was some mid-to-late '80s/early '90s meme (definitely pre-Windows 95) getting spread floppy disk by floppy disk to offices around the country

But I admit, a part of me would like to see it again if only because it was a little moment I had with my grandma