Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text would be useful).
Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!
Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!
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`"""` `"""`https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc says:
> Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
I assume that's how the top level comment posted the tree which is in a <pre><code> structure.
I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool text-mode lightbar interfaces.