ASCII Art
ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a type of character encoding system that is seen on computer platforms. It is a type of art that creates pictures completely out of text and characters that are available on a computer. The main reason why ASCII was developed was because at the time, computers didn't have the graphic capabilities to create detailed pictures.
With the rise of the internet and technological advances with computers, ASCII became very popular among users. One individual by the name of Christopher Johnson was known for his ASCII art designs that range from present day all the way back in 1994 when the internet was just getting started. He has a website (chris.com) that displays all of his ASCII art designs. People also used ASCII around this time for a game called "Multi-User Dungeon" which was a multiplayer roleplay game that was completely textual. ASCII art is still used today, usually on comment pages or forums.
One of my favorite things to do growing up was playing on this old bulky computer that ran Windows XP.I remember seeing ASCII art all of the time, but I never really new the history behind it or what it really was. On windows systems, there used to be this cool easter egg that was accessed by telnetting a website on the command prompt application. If done correctly, the prompt would play Episode IV of star wars in its entirety all in ASCII art. I remember always finding this hack, very cool and it was really the first time I ever really saw an example of ASCII art. At the time, I had no idea what the technique was called, but I was always so fascinated by it. To this day, it's still probably the coolest and most intricate ASCII design piece I have seen.
With the rise of the internet and technological advances with computers, ASCII became very popular among users. One individual by the name of Christopher Johnson was known for his ASCII art designs that range from present day all the way back in 1994 when the internet was just getting started. He has a website (chris.com) that displays all of his ASCII art designs. People also used ASCII around this time for a game called "Multi-User Dungeon" which was a multiplayer roleplay game that was completely textual. ASCII art is still used today, usually on comment pages or forums.
One of my favorite things to do growing up was playing on this old bulky computer that ran Windows XP.I remember seeing ASCII art all of the time, but I never really new the history behind it or what it really was. On windows systems, there used to be this cool easter egg that was accessed by telnetting a website on the command prompt application. If done correctly, the prompt would play Episode IV of star wars in its entirety all in ASCII art. I remember always finding this hack, very cool and it was really the first time I ever really saw an example of ASCII art. At the time, I had no idea what the technique was called, but I was always so fascinated by it. To this day, it's still probably the coolest and most intricate ASCII design piece I have seen.
Thank you for sharing the Star Wars Episode, very cool in deed.
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