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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 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. 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. 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.

  5. 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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