There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have memorised how to type the table flip ASCII emoji, and those who've ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, clever PC users knew how to watch Star Wars in ASCII on Windows XP. Twenty years on, this trick has been all but forgotten, but we can confirm that it ...

You often hear this described as ASCII art, today, although hams usually use 5-bit BAUDOT code, so that’s a misnomer for those images, at least. Of course, today, people aren’t keen on storing ...

You can buy a Blu-ray, rent a digital copy, and thanks to MSCHF’s latest experiment, you can watch them in a way they should never be witnessed: as moving ASCII art in your PC’s Command Prompt ...

What would Google Streetview look like in common characters rather than pixels? The Matrix. ASCII Streetview is a project by Teehan+Lax Labs that chooses the more killjoy option. It’s Google ...

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day. MSCHF’s latest venture will broadcast an ASCII version of a new full-length movie every day.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The face resembles modern ASCII art, but it was published at a time— March 20, 1881—that seemed impossibly early. I checked to see if there were other ...