Re: Why *is* it called ASCII Art ?
From CRYLUX <pdo...@metz.une.edu.au>
· alt.ascii-art
· 30 May 1996 00:00 · View full thread
· report
Pleasant (ple...@snook.com) wrote: : Re: Re: Why *is* it called ASCII Art ? : : ASCII for the art, get the ANSII....hopefully. :) : : Pleasant ASCII stands for the char set used and art is that it is pictures made from it. Like my skulls in my sig made from ASCII chars and are a picture so is ASCII Art. Does that explan things. -- _____ _____ / \ / \ | () () | pdo...@metz.une.edu.au | () () | \ ^ / ___ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ \ ^ / ||||| | |__| \_/ | | | \_/ ||||| ||||| |___ | \ | |___ |___| _/ \_ |||||
Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,52882ec4e5cc6d19 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: pdo...@metz.une.edu.au (CRYLUX) Subject: Re: Why *is* it called ASCII Art ? Date: 1996/05/30 Message-ID: <4ojus8$qe...@grivel.une.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157558784 references: <800...@snook.com> organization: University of New England, NSW, Australia newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Related ASCII art in the Gallery
Explore these categories from our collection of 11,000+ artworks:
Make your own ASCII art
Turn images, text or 3D into ASCII, or draw your own – right in your browser.
About this message.
This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup
alt.ascii-art
in 1996 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked.
The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can.
Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.
Report this message
Help us keep the archive clean and accurate. Reports are reviewed by a person – nothing is changed automatically.