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ASCII is a character encoding designed for computers. I wouldn't have been picky about the author calling it ASCII art but he also says ASCII characters in se
by smoyer 10y ago
ASCII is a character encoding designed for computers. I wouldn't have been picky about the author calling it ASCII art but he also says ASCII characters in several places. So what should it be called? How about type art?
- thaumasiotes 10y agoASCII is a character encoding. But ASCII is also a graphics style. This is the latter.
- svachalek 10y agoThe author calls it "typewriter art" but in the linked article it seems like in its own time it was referred to as "artyping": http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-lost-ancestors-of-ascii-art/283445/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-lo...
- unexistance 10y agoawesome link, love the typewriter's instruction