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Google Art Creator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the google-abuse dept.

Li0nHeart writes: "Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out. Because Google colorizes search-terms you can make very interesting ascii art in the groups." Here is a website dedicated to creating this art and some examples.

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  1. ASCII pr0n by br0ken2o0o · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oooohhh.. I just love that ASCII pr0n, all 20 gigs of it!

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    This post was generated by a Team of Elite Monkeys for br0ken2o0o (569914).
  2. People have entirely too much time on their hands. by Critical_ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sure I think its cool that someone figured out you could do this. But, lets just say that I think that people have too much time on their hands. Back in the BBS days, people would make some awesome ascii art. In all honesty, this is nice but it doesn't comapre to some of the stuff I have seen back in the day.

  3. Fire them if not already done by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The people who spend their time doing this are
    probably unemployed or need to be fired since
    they seem to be wasting time doing something
    like this.

  4. Moron Alert by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    'nuff said

    .

  5. ASCII art died 1982 with Apple's Proportianal font by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ASCII art died 1982 with Apple's Proportianal font on Lisa and then Mac.

    For spite, and readablility at high speeds as shown in many collegiate reading comprehension tests by psychology departements all over the worlds... I DISABLE FIXED FONTS ALWAYS.

    Because I use readable proporational fonts, as used in every printed mazazine and newspaper (London times for over 120 years)... I think ASCII art is retarded.

    Bitmaps are such a part of the real world for over 20 years of Apple computing (Windows, mice, scrolling) that ASCII art is for old grandpas.

    The Apple Lisa came out in Nov 1982 for cripes sake! the same year the crappy non-bitmapped-non-mouse-non-scrolling IBM PC shipped with its clunky tape drive at Sears for 600 dollars with a monochrome screen.

    People forget that the Mac (in Lisa format) shipped twenty years ago.

    The world is still trying to catch up to Apple, but at least the Mouse won.

    let ASCII art stay on the walls of the Old Folks Home when you visit Grandpa.

  6. Re:ASCII art died 1982 with Apple's Proportianal f by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    for more hypocrisy when people say "ascii art" they mean IBM PC ROM character set for north america using the high bit 8 fonts.... and never mean ASCII (ASCII is 7 bits only).

    The world 1982 is a funny one indeed, pc bigots ignored the future (mac) and fought proportional fonts and fought the mouse.