Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

> Well here again I never thought there was a doubt. The only limit of ascii
> art is that it only looks great on the screen, now that we have been spoiled
> by photoshop layers and photo-quality printers. I remember how astonished I
> was when my mom did me a Xmas card with an ascii (no,  it was a mechanic
> typewriter, ascii probably didn't exist yet) with a Xmas tree made out of
> the word merry christmas. I was 5 years old and it was the 70's, so ascii
> art is a memory of childhood to me. That's why I keep trying to bring it
> back to real life by stitching :))

ASCII in the form we know now has existed since 1965. Character
graphics were done on computers before that, though. Before
computers, they were done on typewriters. And before typewriters....
Would you believe there's an example in _Alice in Wonderland_?

Dan

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