ANSI
Before the internet, there were BBSs. Armed with a spare telephone line and 2400 baud modem I created ads and GUIs for Bulletin Board Systems via ANSI. I salvaged these specimens from a couple of ZIP drives and floppy disks. What is possible with only 16 colours and a handful of shapes?
Pixel pushing via TheDraw
Limited Edition — I founded a local ANSI art group — LTD — under the handle, Knight Hawk.
Arrival of the New Kids — LTD subsequently merged with another local art group to form DOA, with a renewed focus on type-based ads and imagery pinched from pop culture.
Gooey GUI — New generation BBSs like Telegard, RemoteAccess and Celerity began including the ability to augment the mostly text-based interfaces with ANSI graphics giving birth to one of the early proponents of user interface design for pre-web networked computer systems.
iCE ice baby — iCE, was one of the pre-eminent international art groups. Prior to my departure from the BBS world, I made an application for iCE membership. This was one the pieces included in the application. I never did find out the status of my application.