RIPscrip never took off in my area; but I still BBS to this day and it seems to me that it failed to stick. Consider the LORD dragon presented in the article i

RIPscrip never took off in my area; but I still BBS to this day and it seems to me that it failed to stick. Consider the LORD dragon presented in the article in both ANSI and RIP: the _ability_ chasm between the artistic representations is enormous! ANSI was lovely because it was only a small abstraction beyond text; and the chunky lo-fi art made it accessible to many, without getting ugly. Consider nowadays where the low-ability alternative to that high fidelity dragon would likely be rendered in shaky mspaint blobs. There's good reason we don't see much of that, and yet in the days of the BBS there was ANSI _dripping_ off the text.