I know there are different types of ASCII art. I call some text art.Then ANSI art, Japanese ASCII art and computer generated (scanned images which are not really art at all).
Others, like typewriter art, are pretty simple to figure out (made on a typewriter).
But, I have heard the terms new skool, old skool, and of course, being a spelling and grammar person, I have never really liked them.… Read the rest
Although you can find her site on the Internet Archives/ Wayback Machine, it’s abandoned by Joan herself. I’ve cut and pasted the site, part by part, so I can preserve the art and the information.
The original source for this post is gone/ broken. I could not find the post elsewhere. Keeping as an archive here so the information is not lost.
… Read the rest1963: ASCII Debuts – By Mary Brandel – 04/12/99
If it weren’t for a particular development in 1963, we wouldn’t have e-mail and there would be no World Wide Web.
… Read the restTHE SEMI-OFFICIAL, SEMI-SERIOUS
ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN
AGAINST GRATUITOUS GRAPHICS ON THE WEB!
I have noticed a disturbing trend in software of late, a trend exemplified in the Web. This is the tendency to decide that if you have enough cool looking graphics, you don’t have to have any real content. This trend, on the web at least, has resulted a glut of graphics heavy, worthless pages, that take a million years to download and once you have them, you wish you hadn’t wasted the time, and don’t even get me started on PC games!
Plain text version (below) for those who can’t see small print very well, like myself. The above screenshot comes from what’s left of the site on the Wayback Machine with the Internet Archive.
… Read the restWhat is the “Respect ASCII Artists Campaign”? Well, it’s something that I decided to do not long after a few things happened that I didn’t agree with.
This domain (LocalColorArts.com) is for sale. I copied their ASCII Art FAQ. It may be repeated from information on Wikipedia, but it’s worth keeping around.
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).… Read the rest
d8P8. d88b. D8B, 88 88 d8P8. d8P. 8888 88 88 e8 8e 8P
d8P 8 8_ .. d8P d8 88 88 8 8 W 88 88 D88 88 88 88b
d8P888 8 Yb. D8P888 88 88 88 e 8P 8P88 88P 88 88 Y88
d8P 8 '88P 'Y88P d8P 88 88 8 8 8 88 '8.,… Read the rest
Doing too many things with too many windows open. I lost track of where I copied this from. I also found the ASCII art I have posted there but had to track back and around awhile to find it in a large enough size to really view. You can’t see the construction when it is too small.… Read the rest