I first discovered all these ansis on Sanctuary in 305. I never met Tempus Thales but I think we lived in the same neighborhood. I got enough positive feedback from my ansis that I went on to get a BFA in studio art.
I was not into the warez scene but I had some classmates who were. I did ansis for Dragonworld and Asylum, and maybe Sanctuary. The ansi scene was separate but associated with the warez scene (I think the cracking groups paid to have ansis made) if that makes any sense.
I was the sysop of Zap! which was PD/Shareware files, message networks and door games. A BBS was a rudimentary CMS that was like a social network for your neighborhood. If you knew ansi you could customize the interface, especially if you had the source code. At one point I had the Telegard source code (Pascal) and made a lot of UI modifications to it.
I'll work on it tonight or tomorrow!