ASCII is an almost 60-year-old art style thatâ s still alive today. Back then you had to create it by hand. But now you can ...

A descendant of typewriter art and line-printer art, ASCII art is a technique that uses printable characters instead of grapahic marks. Traditionally, ...

We admit it, we have a nostalgic soft spot for ASCII Art. Pictures made form characters, printed on an old-fashioned line printer. They’ve been a hacker standby since the 1960’s.

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 ...

The history of ASCII art goes deeper, and much of it is told only in Geocities blog postings, abandoned websites, ... For one line, one might simply add 12 spaces, type "1: ...

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 ...

Guess what you can doView line breaks on Twitter webLet the fun begin. — Twitter (@twitter) March 13, 2013 But there’s one more thing to brace yourself for. … ...

It’s also difficult to convey how large they could be, because it was not uncommon to tape a number of strips of fan-fold paper together to make a larger image. In fact, I remember one guy from around ...

Happy Star Wars Day, Geeks! I’m sure you all are familiar with the basis for this sentiment — specifically, “May the fourth be with you!” — that malapropism send-up of the famous line ...