![]() With "Silly cows" linking to : (also available on the Internet Wayback Machine at :, or go rather to */ and click in the agenda below on the day of the Snapshot you want to see.) These cows can be seen all over the Internet and are truly considered to be Me the COMPLETE, UNCUT, ORIGINAL, and OFFICIAL Silly Cow collection! That page states (excerpt:) Besides digrams and charts, probably the earliest ASCII art from the InternetĪre the "Spy at the Wall" collection and the "Silly Cows" collection.ĭavid Bader, an ASCII art enthusiast and editor of the 'Cows", recently sent I did a few seaches and found out a geocities page talking about it. I believe this easter-egg comes from someone reading those at that time. And IIRC in one of them it started to feature a cow, then some other posts featured more cows, then a post was entirely dedicated to several cows ascii-arts. I remember that there was tons of ascii-art circulating in the early days of Usenet. I believe this comes a long way, from the "pre-http" era. cow files so you can swap other ones in, in place of the cow, such as tux. It also includes the ability to use alternate. You can also use either of these to pass your own strings: $ cowthink 'I love Fedora, Debian? Not so much!' It doesn't matter what you do, it only \ I've been using these for years on Fedora (I believe they predate 1999) and were used as a way to display fortunes in a more interesting way. I always assumed that this feature derived from cowsay
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