ASCII cows.

Someone had waaaay too much time on their hands.

I felt the seconds of my life trickle away as I gazed upon these images.

I saw them at least seven years ago, possibly before that.

Hey, I didn't say they were new ASCII cows...

Whoa! Provokes memories of 300-baud connections where you dialed up, waited for the screech of alien insectoids having their thoraces sliced open, then stuffed the phone into the rubber cup thingies...

For the matter, a phone that when it rang actually rang, I mean with small hammers thwacking real bells and all...

...card punches...urg...

Carl you had the same feel i did, OLDNESS!!!

Gin soaked raisins. I need some gin-soaked raisins..

Scroll the comments, here:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/user/K5%20ASCII%20reenactment%20players/comments

Oh, they're older than seven years. And there are more of them, too:

http://www.gshotts.com/HUMOR/CompleteCows/cows.htm

Carl you had the same...fizz...pop...

Eh? What's that, sonny? Hold on now while I change the batt'ry in ma hearin' aid...

Along similar lines...

ASCII Star Wars:
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

Even more ASCII art:
http://www.ascii-art.net/

The great thing about the computer revolution is that you have your own grandfather stories. It isn't so much "Why, when I was your age. . ." as "Why, a decade or two ago. . ."

There are some hilarious moon hoaxers that can't seem to understand how the Apollo and LM computers could have done anything useful. After all, their RAM and ROM was measured in kilobytes, and even a low end computer has at least 64 megabytes, right? So how could they possibly do anything??

Meanwhile, I remember being absolutely thrilled when I was able to buy a home computer as powerful as an Apple II+, my first 300 baud modem, then a few years later, my amazingly powerful 10mhz zero wait state IBM AT clone with a MEGABYTE of ram, and a radically fast 2400 bps modem! Now my (not exactly new) primary home computer runs at over 3 ghz, has 2 gigs of ram, hundreds of gigs of disk, and has a broadband connection. Sigh ...

True! Weird realization: when I was in college none of my fellow students used a computer on a regular basis. We did lots of typing, but zero word processing. No one had a monitor on his desk. Even weirder: am I talking about Podunk U? Nope. MIT.

Sometimes it's hard even to remember what life was like before the net. I get my tax forms from irs.gov, sometimes at 11.05 PM on April 15, alas. I check the bank balances and pay bills on1ine, write maybe 3 checks a month. I do professional research on1ine -- been years since I had to do Interlibrary loan. Read news, find out gummint deadlines and download forms, buy books and presents, on and on.

I can't help but think this amazing development has hugely increased our productivity as a nation. Without doubt, it has mine. Take away the net and I'd feel like a caveman, I think.

*Someone had waaaay too much time on their hands.*
I'd say your point was "udderly" moooooooo-t.