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These files are from the text e-zine Another Day and 
Night Alliance (ANADA), which I stumbled onto while 
wandering around textfiles.com. ANADA the e-zine ran from 
2000-2004. I authored four text files for ANADA:
#409: "What Were You Asking?" (2001)
#430: "Restless" (2001)
#510: "Untitled" (2002)
#524: "Checking out" (2003)
The original issues of ANADA are, surprisingly, all still 
online: 
ANADA
I wasn't nearly as active or involved as many of the 
other authors. I didn't create ANADA. I saw enough in 
what the other authors had to say, that I found a voice 
that I didn't know I had and surprisingly found a few 
listeners. I'm not sure I ever even completed my bio 
enough for Gloomchen to post it, although I remember 
participating in the anada.net forums.

ANADA, and the text scene, predates social media. All of it. 
Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, WordPress, 
Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Android, the iPhone, emoji-- all of 
these came later. ASCII knows nothing, adds nothing, subtracts 
nothing. ASCII is words, thoughts, descriptions, meaning, 
explanation. 

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many 
picures do you scroll by every day without giving them a 
second (or even first) thought?