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The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character
RFC 8140

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2018-12-20
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Ever since Gutenberg discovered and patented ASCII and the corresponding "Courier New" font with its now-famous …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'Ever since Gutenberg discovered and patented ASCII and the corresponding "Courier New" font with its now-famous "ten" point size, artisans and artificers have striven to represent their views of the world in print.

Similarly, starting from Darwin's discovery of the hippogriff and his subsequent registration of the creature as an International Trade Mark, men (and some women) have struggled to catalog the fabulous variety that is called "nature".

This document supplies a number of representations of all manner of things (both elemental and hypothetical) supplied by some of our best collectors of curios and delivered in a manner that may well be reused by the cunning document author.')
2018-04-04
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2017-05-16
(System) Changed document authors from "" to "Adrian Farrel"
2017-04-01
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 8140, created alias RFC 8140, changed title to 'The Arte of ASCII: Or, An …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 8140, created alias RFC 8140, changed title to 'The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character', changed abstract to 'Ever since Gutenberg discovered and patented ASCII and the corresponding "Courier New" font with its now-famous "ten" point size, artisans and artificers have striven to represent their views of the world in print.', changed pages to 16, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, changed stream to ISE, added RFC published event at 2017-04-01)
2017-04-01
(System) RFC published