Editing Computer art scene (section)

==Early computer art==
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The history of computer art predates the computer art scene for several decades, with the first experiments having taken place in the early 1950s. Devices like [[plotter]]s and [[teletypewriter]]s were commonly used instead of video display screens. The earliest precursors to [[ASCII art]] can be found in [[radioteletype|RTTY]] art, that is, pictures created by [[amateur radio]] enthusiasts with teleprinters using the [[Baudot code]].

In the early days of [[microcomputer]]s, what could be shown on a typical [[computer display|video display screen]] was limited to plain and simple text, such as that found in the [[ASCII]] code set.  In the early 1980s, users of [[IBM PC compatible]] computers began to experiment with ways of forming simple pictures and designs using only the 255 characters within the [[Extended ASCII]] [[character encoding|character set]], specifically known as [[code page]] [[codepage 437|437]], created by [[IBM]].  [[Modem]]s and networking technology allowed computer users to communicate with each other over [[bulletin board system]]s (BBSes); the [[sysop|operators]] of these BBSes used [[ASCII art]] to enhance the aesthetic appearance of their systems.   The common user interface or video mode shared by all systems was [[text user interface|plain text]].  As a result, a "[[Warez (scene)|scene]]" of [[artists]] arose to fill the need for original art to distinguish one BBS from another.