ASCII art was mainly invented to be able to produce art using early printers, and it was also used to mark divisions between print jobs It would later be used in emails and text messages before it ...

Instagram's secret text art filter: Trick lets you turn your social media photos into retro-looking ASCII images. Twitter user revealed how to see Facebook and Instagram ASCII photos ...

He recently noticed that Facebook and Instagram automatically turn many public photos into ASCII art just by adding a file extension to the end of the web link -- ".html" if you want a color image ...

MSCHF recently launched a digital ASCII Theater online. ASCII is text-based visuals and images – using symbols and letters to create designs and objects, or in this case, entire frames of a movie.

To get Instagram's ASCII-ified version of any image, all you need to do is add .html to the original image file's URL. To do that, you need to get the URL--here's how: 1.

...but only using a predetermined set of text. Here's what I want: I want to make a wallpaper with the "pi" symbol at the center, comprised entirely of the first x,000,000 digits of pi. I know of ...

We’re not exactly sure why they’re doing it yet, but a self-described ‘Web standards fanatic’ named Mathias Bynens has discovered that Facebook and Instagram are automatically making ASCII ...

Here’s the original image, and by adding .html to the end of that URL, you’ll get the colored ASCII version. As Bynens notes, appending .txt instead will get you a black-and-white version.