![]() 'Manolo Uno' - one of the first cross-breeds of the Tauros programme. Geneticists advised breeding certain species together to produce offspring closer to the qualities of an auroch, and then breed the offspring. Rather than attempt the type of gene editing or high-tech de-extinction approaches being employed for species from woolly mammoths to passenger pigeons, Goderie chose a method known as back-breeding to create a substitute bovine he named “Tauros.”Īuroch genes remain present in various breeds of cattle around the continent, and the team identified descendants in Spain, Portugal, Italy and the Balkans. “We reasoned that this animal would have to resemble an auroch.” “We thought we needed a grazer that is fully self-sufficient in case of big predators…and could do the job of grazing big wild areas,” says Goderie. The most powerful herbivore in European history seemed to offer a solution. MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesĮcologist Ronald Goderie launched the Tauros programme in 2008, seeking to address failing ecosystems. To prove how popular it was in Usenet, the first question mentionned on the Internet Oracle wikipedia page: is about cow(s).Cave painting in Lascaux, France dating back around 17,000 years which is believed to depict an auroch. Of course a true reference lies in usenet archives, but I don't have much time yet to do proper research (I may update this post in the near future)Īt some point there was even a .moo newsgroup created (probably quite a bit after cows started to invade ascii arts? But maybe before, I lack time to research properly) (see for example : ) 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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