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ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)
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It’s very possible that people were making text-based porn as early as medieval times, since scribes sometimes used delicate script to create illustrations and visual poems alongside biblical texts. “The first piece I saw as a kid in the 80s [was] when my grandfather brought home a full-size ASCII nude woman from work, printed across multiple sheets of old dot matrix printer paper,” he said. ASCII porn, back then, moved through early forums called bulletin board systems (BBSes), Telenet, Usenet, and the sneakernet—the term for transferring files around on physical hard drives, CDs and floppy disks.
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