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Play Your Video As ASCII Art!

without comments

I saw something catchy the other day, and I thought I would share it.

ASCII Art

For those who doesn’t know it, ASCII Art is about using the standard ASCII characters to resemble images or pictures, and it was -at the beginning- used by owners of printers that lacked graphics ability, so they had to use characters in place of graphic marks.[1]
But then, for it’s style or ease of implementation across a wide range of platforms (Basically plain text support is the only requirement), ASCII Art got the attention of (hackers and/or computer geeks) such as me :D

ASCI Art Examples

ASCI Art Examples

The last one “High ASCII” style is usually found in the .nfo files that are included in Warez software packages, smilies such as “:)” are also considered ASCII Art

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Written by lawand

2008-05-17 at 13:49