ASCII ribbon campaign

The ASCII ribbon campaign was an Internet phenomenon started in 1998 advocating that email be sent only in plain text, because of inefficiencies or dangers of using HTML email. Proponents placed ASCII art in their signature blocks, meant to look like an awareness ribbon, along with a message or link to an advocacy site:

()  ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail 
/\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments

                       _
ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
 against HTML e-mail   X
                      / \

/"\
\ /  ASCII Ribbon Campaign
 X    against HTML e-mail
/ \

History

Following the development of Microsoft Windows 95, standards adherents became annoyed that they were receiving email in HTML and non-human-readable formats. The first known appearance of a ribbon in support of the campaign was in the signature of an email dated 17 June 1998 by Maurício Teixeira of Brazil.^[1] Two groups of pursuers, Asciiribbon.org and ARC.Pasp.DE, differ in their attitudes towards vCard.

References

^ Sperling, Patric (2002-12-23) [2000], ASCII Ribbon Campaign — against HTML mail, vCards and proprietary formats, DE: Pasp, retrieved 2013-02-04.

External links

The ASCII Ribbon Campaign, archived from the original on 2010-03-11, retrieved 2020-04-13.

[1] Sperling, Patric (2002-12-23) [2000], ASCII Ribbon Campaign — against HTML mail, vCards and proprietary formats, DE: Pasp, retrieved 2013-02-04.

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v t e Awareness ribbons
List of ribbons
Green Blue Red White Black Yellow Orange Purple Periwinkle Brown Gray Pink Teal Turquoise Pink and blue Saint George Zebra print
Culture	ASCII ribbon campaign Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign Red Ribbon Week Self-injury Awareness Day White Ribbon Campaign Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
See also	Pink Ribbons, Inc. Red Ribbon Express
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