Modern Art There’s no shortage of modern ASCII art. If you think about it, the text-based emoticons (like :-), for example) are one line ASCII art.

Sean Rooney's Moon Phase Tracker displays the current phase of the moon as beautiful, animated ASCII art. Note that it's ...

ASCII art is as much a part of the Internet as emoticons, cats, or lol. We're talking about pictures made from text: letters, numbers, and special characters like # * and \ . They look like this.

From your everyday talking cows to upside-down, rainbow-colored, ASCII art made from ridiculously large prime numbers, these Linux commands range from mildly humorous to outright bizarre. Just because ...

Readers of a certain age may fondly remember ASCII art emerging from line printers in a long-gone era of computing; for others, it’s just wonderfully retro. Well, when [Emily Velasco] found a… ...

I'm getting ready to go on a much-needed vacation. So this week's report on the ESRB, tethering phones and SMS ASCII art is short and simple.

Hey, keyboard art enthusiasts — we’re holding a contest on Underwire to see what kind of ASCII art skillz our readers have. A couple weeks ago, I posted an ASCII art slide show based on some ...

On either side of the fan-fold paper were sprocket holes, which were used to feed the paper through the printer. Also, the folds in the paper were accompanied by tiny perforations, which made it easy ...

How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history ...

The history of ASCII art goes deeper, and much of it is told only in Geocities blog postings, abandoned websites, Google Books, and scattered PDFs across the web. This post traces a fascinating ...