#mist1094

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Mistigram: from our very first MIST1094 artpack release way back 29 years ago, here's a, frankly, typographically rather bizarre #ANSIart logo by the 418 area code's Mist Classic font specialist The Naughty Tycoon, in promotion of the "Krasch" coding magazine.

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Mistigram: the first bulletin board service, Ward Christensen and Randy Suess's CBBS, launched 45 years ago today. Sixteen years later came along Mistigris' first WHQ BBS, #TheScreamingTomato, run by SysOp Nitnatsnoc. This #ANSIart advertisement for it, featuring the Image Comics character #Pitt, was drawn by Mavrik and included in our debut MIST1094 artpack collection released 29 years ago.

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OK, it's October and a spooky Halloween MIST1017 artpack is on its way. Until then, however, we have years of scary computer art from the Mist Classic vaults with which to terrify and delight you. This is a piece of #ANSIart from our very first artpack, MIST1094, drawn by the astounding Inquisitor (shortly to join Integrity) for Point of No Return (aka PONR aka a predictable adolescent misspelling), the BBS of his handler Pestilence. Is that Marvel's Ghost Rider grabbing some redhead? Tall and thin, these "scrollers" (ANSI art works of multiple pages but a fixed width of 79 usable textmode columns) were the most "elite" and prestigious kinds of BBS ads of their era.