Today we’re taking a brief break from our endless promenade of historical “Mist” logos in the interest of topicality, to celebrate both the American holiday of July 1st and the recent release of the seemingly unnecessary sequel to Roland Emmerich’s 1996 blockbuster movie Independence Day (ID4). (And how did he manage to anticipate the onslaught of
☺️ emoji awaiting us?) Handiboy (who’s undergone a few name changes in the meantime) submitted this curious mixed ANSI/ASCII piece to MIST2YR1, our 2-year anniversary artpack collection which must have come out sometime near October of 1996 – the artpack that I believe may have been his first releases anywhere in the scene!
It’s sure not advertising any BBSes, a failure considered considered anathema when I joined up to NWA in 1993, but by 1996 (perhaps thanks to boundary-pushing efforts by the merry Mist crew and others like us) we were more than happy to feature interesting computer art regardless of whether it shilled for anybody or not. Handiboy of course went on to further heights of success in both textmode and music creations, but the time will come to continue blogging about those 8)
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Jul 4, 2016 at 12:15pm UTC
