Ham Radio Art You often hear this described as ASCII art, today, although hams usually use 5-bit BAUDOT code, so that’s a misnomer for those images, at least.

ASCII art are images that have been pieced together from 95 printable characters in the ASCII Standard from 1963. The images were also used early on in email when images were not able to be ...

Readers of a certain age may fondly remember ASCII art emerging from line printers in a long-gone era of computing; for others, it’s just wonderfully retro. Well, when [Emily Velasco] found a… ...

Reese created his art using nothing but a typewriter. Fans of computer art are no doubt familiar with ASCII art: representational pieces created using nothing but the characters on a computer ...

ASCII is a 48-year-old encoding scheme th’s’s made up of the 128 basic symbols in the English language and is built into all Windows and Apple operating systems.

The history of ASCII art goes deeper, and much of it is told only in Geocities blog postings, abandoned websites, Google Books, and scattered PDFs across the web. This post traces a fascinating ...

Hey, keyboard art enthusiasts — we’re holding a contest on Underwire to see what kind of ASCII art skillz our readers have. A couple weeks ago, I posted an ASCII art slide show based on some ...

'ASCII art ', which reproduces photographs and illustrations by combining letters and symbols, is one of the cultures that is inseparable from the history of the Internet, especially the Japanese ...

Here's something you probably didn't know about Facebook and Instagram. Images uploaded to the services are automatically creating ASCII art versions of those photos.