These
links lead off of our website. Use them at your own risk. If you find a link that goes
to an inappropriate site, please notify Ken
Rohrer immediately.
In the
early 1990's, many sites were dedicated to ASCII art. ASCII art, which
has been around since the 1960's when computers were run by keypunched cards,
is art created entirely out of text. In the 1970's and 1980's, ASCII
art was the only way to create graphics. Although declining in popularity,
ASCII art is still found on the internet and is a legitimate art form. The acronym for ASCII is the "American
Standard Code for Information Interchange." Now you know why they always
use the acronym!
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Another text-based art style and a cousin of ASCII is ANSI
Art.
The acronym for ANSI is the "American National Standards Institute."
ANSI doesn't have as many limitations as with ASCII. ANSI was a hit
with the BBS when it was still popular. ASCII and ANSI art is something
that art students love to do. Give your students a few lessons in ASCII
and keep this art alive!
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One of the major players
of ASCII art was Bob Allison. He was the first moderator of the ASCII
newsgroup. He also had a website dedicated to ASCII art called the
Scarecrow (No longer in existence- I've recreated it here.). Bob was
one of the early legends of the internet who had very popular websites
called
BobaWorld,
Uncle
Bob's Kids' Page, The Spiders Web, The Web Masters Page and many others.
(I have been trying to track Bob down. If you know
how to contact him, please let me know.)
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There are many ASCII
art galleries on the internet. Many of them have been copied directly
from the rec.arts.ascii newsgroup. We have art from the former moderator
of the group, Bob Allison here.
His site, The Scarecrow, was a huge influence on the genre and deserves to be archived.
ASCII art lessons are
few and far between on the internet. Because of this, feel free to
submit any ASCII lessons for inclusion on this page. What few there are
is listed below:
