The ASCII ribbon campaign updated for 2019

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, CrazyInvertedPopehat, who retweeted some of it.

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| I STAND FOR
THE AMERICAN FLAG!
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ 　 づ

RETWEET if you stand with us!

Link to tweet

Keep going....

|￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣￣|
| I STAND FOR THE
FIRST AMENDMENT &
THE FREEDOM TO NOT
STAND FOR THE FLAG!

WV SBOE V. BARNETTE
|＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿|
(__/) ||
(•ㅅ•) ||
/ 　 づ

Link to tweet

What is the ASCII ribbon campaign? The formatting is all messed up in the Wikipedia entry, but for the young'uns:

ASCII ribbon campaign

The ASCII ribbon campaign was an Internet phenomenon started in 1998 advocating that email be sent only in plain text, because of inefficiencies or dangers of using HTML email. Proponents placed ASCII art in their signature blocks, meant to look like an awareness ribbon, along with a message or link to an advocacy site:

() ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail
/ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
_
ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
against HTML e-mail X
/

/"
/ ASCII Ribbon Campaign
X against HTML e-mail
/

[Ron Obvious]

1. Memories of usenet...

What was it called, alt.warlord or something? The enormous ASCII signatures that were the hallmark of that group.

Aha, found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.fan.warlord

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Yes, yes, yes. I used to be a member of some of those groups.

I'd get access through a free local BBS. I had -- what? -- a 2400 baud rate modem, something like that. I upgraded to 9600 and 14400 along the way.

Sigh.

[Ron Obvious]

3. Luxury!

I started with a 300 baud modem and upgraded to 1200 baud! And I was happy!

[/FOURYORKSHIREMEN]

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. SMH, but yeah. NT