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of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The limitations of computers of that time period necessitated the use of text characters to represent images. Along with ASCII's use in communication, however, it also began to appear in the underground online art groups of the period. An ASCII comic is a form of
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terminals. These animations were simply text with cursor movement instructions, deleting and erasing the characters necessary to appear animated. Usually, they represented a long hand-crafted process undertaken by a single person to tell a story.
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font, which includes characters like ┌╥─╨┐♥☺Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ). Also, the common practice of rendering
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of computer programs for representation of company or product logos, and flow control or other diagrams. In some cases, the entire source code of a program is a piece of ASCII art – for instance, an entry to one of the earlier
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The IBM PC graphics hardware in text mode uses 16 bits per character. It supports a variety of configurations, but in its default mode under DOS they are used to give 256 glyphs from one of the IBM PC code pages
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precision, and then assign a character for each value. Such ASCII art generators often allow users to choose the intensity and contrast of the generated image.
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2455:"Eigenbau eines Kabelauslösers - Problem mit der Funktion…"
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512:archives represent the circuits using ASCII art.
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2333:"Sci.electronics FAQ: Assorted ASCII Schematics"
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3218:"History of Text Art Video by RaD Man / ACiD"
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3308:Building Character: ANSI From the Ground Up
3287:"Strona grupy dyskusyjnej PL.REC.ASCII-ART"
2713:"The Adventures of Nerd Boy—Episodes 1-635"
2600:"Roguelikes Aren't Done With ASCII Art Yet"
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2784:Moeser, David; Fusik, Piotr (2007-05-13).
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2848:100 YEARS OF THE COMPUTER ART SCENE
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3909:Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
3621:Generative artificial intelligence
3216:Cumbrowski, Carsten (2007-11-02).
2877:"ASCII Art Generator: An Overview"
2598:Valentin, Christian (2016-10-17).
2573:Cumbrowski, Carsten (2007-02-14).
2315:"Circuits in the Circuits Archive"
1208:Most ASCII art is created using a
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629:Hundreds of different text smileys
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3198:"Future Potentials for ASCII art"
2646:Paul, Matthias R. (1997-07-30) .
2513:Paul, Matthias R. (2010-04-09) .
2483:Paul, Matthias R. (2009-04-26) .
2350:Cunningham, Collin (2010-02-04).
2061:"DEVELOPMENT OF (ASCII) TEXT ART"
1956:"The History of ASCII (Text) Art"
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2543:Paul, Matthias R. (2012-05-09).
2453:Paul, Matthias R. (2005-03-07).
2423:Paul, Matthias R. (2009-03-14).
2393:Paul, Matthias R. (2005-12-12).
2364:from the original on 2016-09-11.
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1459:List of emoticons § Eastern
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2625:Hanselman, Scott (2018-01-12).
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2211:from the original on 2008-02-15
2199:"History of the PC Ascii Scene"
2127:. University of Chicago Press.
2033:Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
1984:. The Virtual Typewriter Museum
1841:Duplicate characters in Unicode
951:extended proprietary characters
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3367:Chris.com ASCII art collection
3347:TexArt.io ASCII Art collection
3050:Zakas, Laimonas (2012-01-12).
2425:"Minolta SR-T Batterieadapter"
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1455:Emoticon § Japanese_style
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2687:"Collection of ASCII Smileys"
2271:. Retrieved 17 February 2008.
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2919:Jansen, Simon (2006-04-18).
2757:Štěrba, Radek (2005-12-20).
2378:. 2015-02-13. Archived from
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3236:Jones, Mike (2002-09-12).
3148:PLATO Emoticons, revisited
2197:Necromancer (1998-03-06).
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2971:"Beck - Black Tambourine"
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3015:"Online Text Obfuscator"
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3666:Photograph manipulation
3135:www.worldofspectrum.org
3077:"Unicode 3.2 test page"
2969:BeckVEVO (2009-10-07).
2003:"D.I.Y. Typewriter Art"
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1680:Overprinting (surprint)
808:ANSI Creators in Demand
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3172:Beal, Vangie (2008).
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2852:Jason Scott Sadofsky
2745:nb-pl.jogger.pl 2006
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3752:Desmond Paul Henry
3551:Computer art scene
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3377:2019-07-06 at the
3339:2019-08-21 at the
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