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I realized 2 days after my post about the 30 years of naked ASCII art that the gallery was not working with Firefox and Safari. No wonder that it died at Digg before it even started. I would be glad, if you could revive it by digging it, if you happen to have a Digg […]

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I created today a Google Group titled “ASCII and ANSI Text Art”, but it is open to anything and anybody who and which is related to Text Art. For that reason is the short name and URL to the group “textart” instead of “asciiart” or “ansiart”. ASCII and ANSI text art Visit this group ?? […]

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I came across a nice free tool that converts images to ASCII. It is called Photo2Text.com and produces very decent results. I have looked at a bunch of such converters since the early nineties and the results can vary a lot, depending on the quality of the algorithm that has to decide which text character […]

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Except for some activities at deviantART was I not successful after over one year of searching to find much (if any) other blogs that are related to the old ANSI and ASCII underground artscene. Fellow artists who created ASCII art for group NFO files, File_ID.diz or ANSI art for BBS Layouts and Login pictures and […]

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I came across two cool examples of ascii art made entirely out of 7-bit US-ASCII characters only, using only letters, number etc. As a refresher, here is the complete US-ASCII character set. US Charsset – ascii 32 (space) to 126 (tilde ~) ! ” # $ % & ‘ ( ) * + , – […]