Re: Why *is* it called ASCII Art ?

In article <ken...@voyager13.lglobal.com>, Ken West
<ken...@lglobal.com> writes
>The ASCII.art FAQ mentions that  
>
>>  Before computers, ASCII art was made on typewriters,
>> teletype machines (5 bit), and was created typographically.  There are even
>> tee-shirts with the :-) smiley.
>
>This raises a couple of questions:
>
>1.  What was it called when done on typewriters  (before ASCII code was
>invented)?

            Typewriter art.  When it was on lineprinters
in the 1970s I never heard a specific name, but I 
suppose it might have been called lineprinter art :-)

[those I saw were shading--nudes, Mona Lisa, etc;
I have no idea how the images were converted, perhaps manually]

>
>2.  Why is it called ASCII art now?

    Despite your elegant reasoning, an ASCII file has become
  synonymous with a  'plain text' file such as text editors edit,
  without font or layout information and therefore displayed
  in the standard system (typewriter) font.


                      
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