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Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-an-online-convertor-for-this dept.

boogi78 writes "Remember ASCII art? This is the Web 2.0 CSS version of ASCII art featuring Homer Simpson. Here is a CSS G.W. Bush. There's also an program that automatically converts jpegs into 'CSS images,' but it's a Windows executable. I found no sources for it, but I got it to work with WINE."

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  1. Web 2.0? by Chris+Burkhardt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now using CSS and JavaScript is a criterion for "Web 2.0"? When will it end?

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    1. Re:Web 2.0? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Ah, if Web 2.0 entails the use of CSS and JavaScript, that must mean Web 3.0 will be coming out with something truly fantastic... perhaps they'll introduce something called HTML? On a more serious note, people who use the terms "Web 2.0" and "AJAX"** should not have jobs. Nor should their bosses if they are actually impressed by "buzz words" that are anything but.

      ** Yes, "AJAX", not "Ajax". It's an acronym, and no amount of "omg let's make it sound more amazing than it really is by making it a normal-looking word" is going to change that.

    2. Re:Web 2.0? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Web 2.0 can't really be defined as anything, it's merely a buzzword. It just happens to be associated with ajax 99% of the time and someone made the link with javascript.

    3. Re:Web 2.0? by NotBorg · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Recommend those curious read O'Reilly's definition

      That definition is 5 pages long. No wonder no one knows what it is. Or perhaps "definition" is not really the word you're looking. "Description" would perhaps be a better word.



      From the O'Reilly article:

      "Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core."


      Sounds kinda fuzzy to me. At any rate it's kind of like the words "gay" and "hacker." They don't mean what they used to mean and you can't really do much about that. Use different wording if you want to be understood.



      The term "Web 2.0" has been pwnt.

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    4. Re:Web 2.0? by Provocateur · · Score: 3, Insightful

      What was .0 the mid 90s web of sliced to hell images, frames, and animated gif based technologies.

      mid-90s? I swear I saw all that in MySpace just the other day

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  2. Re:Seen this long ago for Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sameish idea: DeImg from The Daily Grind Network. AKA how to turn a 30k image into a 6 meg browser killing table.
  3. Bored? by frdmfghtr · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Clearly this is the result of having FAR too much free time.

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    1. Re:Bored? by MooseMuffin · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Speaking as someone with far too much free time, I've never done anything /. worthy. I imagine the same is true of many of us, so lets give the guy some credit.

  4. Slashdotted by Itninja · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And only after 25 comments. :O(

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  5. But can I block it? by DJ+Manning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I fear that our advertising overlords will use this to display advertising that I'd otherwise block. The next step in fighting advertising on the web? Block all ASCII charaters from being displayed!!! That'll fix those advertisers.

  6. Slashdot owes me the cost of two ibuprofen. by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My head hurts whenever I read "Web 2.0".

    Do the world a favor: smack anyone who uses the phrase "web two point oh" in a conversation. Smack them. Smack them hard.

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