ASCII Nudes Collection - 30 Years of "Naked" ASCII Art

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Who said that ASCII text art is boring?
You have probably not seen some of the great pieces of nude ASCII art yet. Luckily for you did I spend the time to collect the best pieces of Nude ASCII art available from around the world and over 30 years. I am proud to be able to present them to you here and now, 100 ASCII Nudes!. The artist who contributed the most to this collection is undoubtly the RTTY text artist Don Royer's (aka WA6PIR). Don created exclusively text art replica of Playboy Magazine Centerforld photographs throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Unfortunately Don did several years already, but his legacy will continue to keep the memory of him alive.

How to Navigate the Gallery
You can choose between the display with white background and black font (default) to emulate the look under Windows (like with Notepad) or black background with white font (invert), which emulates the original DOS to some degree MS DOS did not have a white font as default. It was a light gray, but who is checking? :)

... That is not all yet. I dug up the original photographs for 40 50 of the 100 nude pictures from Playboy Magazine. I posted them on my blog. Check it out for an ASCII Art Nudes versus Original Playboy Centerfolds comparison.
You can also look at the original nude photograph or painting (typically a vintage Playboy Centerfold or a painted Alberto Vargas Girl) that the artist used as the motive for his nude ASCII by clicking on the link labeled "Photo" underneith the thumbs, where it is available. If you click on the link labled "ASCII" below the mini-thumbnail images for an ASCII, which is available for every ASCII in my collection, the original ASCII text file of the piece will be loaded in a new browser window (pop-up, make sure that you disabled pop-up blockers).

"Boss Key" Feature
Noticed the "Boss Key" to the top right? It will stay with you, even if you scroll to look at the ASCIIs. Click it and the page will turn from Rated:R to Rated:G in an instant. The Button will change to "Home", just click it again when everything is safe again and continue where you left off :).