Appreciation For All Things ASCII

AsciiRock writes "Sick of seeing those chunky pixel art logos everywhere? Check out AsciiBlog, Contemporary ASCII, and Ascii Disko (no relation to me) for examples of artists inspired by plain text. ...and also click me! and click me! which made their way around the net some time back. Wonder how many other examples of BBS design sensibility there'll be this year. There's already Wired illustrators. 2002, year of ASCII design?"

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Oh no...

[Exiler]

This is just asking for the goatsecx trolls...

Only time I ever see ascii related stuff is

[Rooked_One]

usually when *one of my friends* has to look at the .nfo file to know how to *install* something.

that and the quake mod done in all ascii for linux - has that been ported to windows yet?

the obligatory......

[xao gypsie]

ASCII pr0n!!!!......im sry, i had to..

xao

Ascii pr0n

[_aa_]

Be sure and check out asciipr0n for all you ascii pr0nography needs.

Re:Ascii pr0n

[gangien]

I'm not sure what is scarier, that this things exists or that slashdot moddes it informative.

Just metamoderated an ASCII art comment

[bubblegoose]

While the goatse guy totally disgusts me, I just metamoderated a comment where someone made the goatse picture out of ASCII text.

It was pretty funny, but the guy links to the real thing all over his comment.

Re:Just metamoderated an ASCII art comment

[Anonymous Coward]

Experienced HTML Programmer looking for part-time work

Good to see you know the bold and italics tags.

Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS

[houseofmore]

"....http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ requires a java-enabled browser"

It's a sad sad day when you need to install java to view ascii :(

Tux

[houseofmore]

Let's not forget this baby!

Re:Don't forget ASCIIMATION STAR WARS

[SweetAndSourJesus]

this?

/. effect

[breon.halling]

Holy crap! I think these site can withstand the Slashdot effect! All they're serving up are textfiles! =)

ASCII Pr0n

[Cyno01]

Reminds me of a keynote speach i heard by Jason Scott (the textfile.com guy) about how he got in trouble at school for selling ascii porn. His reply when called into the principals office and presented with the evidence was, "I dont know what you see sir, but all i see is a bunch of letters and numbers on the page."

Ironic?

[rlowe69]

Does anyone else see the irony in 32-bit colour ASCII? Geez ...

Re:funny ascii - ascii art farts

[YinYang69]

I'm so very glad someone gave the link to asciiartfarts!!! The site rocks. And if someone out there happens to enjoy the asciiartfart sense of humor as much as I do, then you guys will also enjoy jerkcity [jerkcity.com].

Jerkcity serves out black and white gif comic strips (thereby making this posting a bit off-topic, however given the context...). Hilarious if sometimes a bit hard to follow.

INFORMATIVE?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

What a sad state you people are in when you mod up semi-porn to informative! Like you freaks really need MORE porn!

The #musicdsp Adventures

[kilraid]

Need "quality" stuff? Here's a perverted ASCII comic, The #musicdsp Adventures , which I drew last year - stories from the music digital signal processing IRC channel. Each picture is only 3 lines long. A tiny sample:

\õ/ Oh Bram! OH BRAM!!!
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/\|\_o ..ah DJ Maus, DJ MAUS!!!