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 ...

ASCII Streetview is a project by Teehan+Lax Labs that chooses the more killjoy option. It’s Google Streetview, run through a WebGL shader. This shader converts shapes and colors to the basic ...

One of the most famous examples is the ASCII art version of the original 1977 Star Wars movie, which was completed by New Zealand-based programmer Simon Jansen in 1997 and is still available online.