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"ACiD Productions" at Wikipedia contains a great deal of useful information, which I am mirroring here in the event that it gets removed from there:

ACiD Productions (ACiD) was a digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for bulletin board systems (BBS). Later, they extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development. During the BBS era, their biggest competitor was iCE Advertisements.

History: ACiD Productions was founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated on ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as [tracker music], [demo] coding, and multimedia software development (e.g., [image viewer]s). Membership rose from five members in 1990 to well over seven hundred by 2003.

In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, [Remorse] was the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art. Similarly, [pHluid] was responsible for module tracking and music production, and ACiDic handled [bulletin board software modification] and enhancement.

In the post dial-up BBS era, ACiD focused largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news (TheARTS podcast), the sale of their DVD-based artscene archives (Dark Domain: The Artpacks.acid.org Collection), and sponsorship of demoparties.

Works: ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. A select list follows: Demos: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" Image viewers: [ACiD View] SimpleXB RemorseView [ACiDDraw] Empathy PabloDraw [Metadata] protocols and binary image standard: [SAUCE] [XBin] Disk magazines: [The Product] Lancelot II ACiDnews Radio programming: The ARTS (news/talk radio) pHluid Radio (music) ACiD Radio (music) References: Garrett, Ben (2004-04-27). "Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium". defacto2.net. "ACID (ANSI Creators In Demand) were the first of these international groups, trendsetters who originally specialised in ANSI art and ANSIMation ads. They earned their reputation at being one of the best groups by creating art for the best pirate boards of the time." Hargadon, Michael A. "Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000." Concordia University, 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18. "Artscene". BBS: The Documentary. 2005.