| Kinda like the old oekaki boards, eh? Forums where you drew your posts with tools embedded on the page. The pen here ought to draw without anti-aliasing for authenticity ;) Here's a page from a Japanese board, 20 years ago to the day: https://coolier.net/oekaki/173.htm From the nearly sequential unmoderated post IDs, one surmises its visitors were a little more... civil than HN has been today. ^_^ Here's a western one, 2008-2015: http://archive.tewi.us/tegaki/showtags.php This forum had no text entry! All comments were handwritten and drawn. Its last days saw what might be the most expressive biddings of farewell ever posted on the web: http://archive.tewi.us/tegaki/sortbytag.php?t=1&p=2 Is it a coincidence both sites are Touhou-themed? What we can see is that the second had a lot of tumblr users... Right! 4chan still has an oekaki board, one of two boards with special UI. The editor (tegaki.js) records lossless replays as proof that posts are original. Fitting the theme, you can watch a Reimu being drawn here in 39m51s: https://boards.4chan.org/i/thread/699320#p737995 - That kind of linework with no anti-aliasing is something special when displayed unscaled at the right DPI. I think it's the crispness that makes it pop. Same with Easytoon animation: 1-bit 160x120 GIF can look this good? (https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts?tags=easytoon_%28medium%29+...) |