If you remember the term ASCII Art, congratulations, you've been around long enough to see the Internet grow from a baby into an adult.
Believe it or not, this was one the most searched topics in the Internet, in the early 90's.
Technology was so good and so Lightning fast (pun intended) that people would prefer to visit sites with no images. It was simply too boring and too expensive to wait for images to load. Pages with images would be naturally ostracised. Nobody wanted to look at images.
Nowadays people close pages... if they don't have enough images. Ahahah!
What a long way we've come, eh?
Meanwhile, ASCII Art has become a lost and buried form of art.
The most common ASCII Art picture is the smiley. :-)
But as you'll see, it is possible to do a lot more.
There's a big archive set up at www.asciiart.eu. Here are a few examples taken from this site:
Art by Joris Bellenger
Venus de Milo by Morfina
Queen of the Nile by John Stachowicz
PC by Joan G. Stark
The Beatles by Veronica Karlsson
Mona Lisa by Normand Veilleux
Swimmer on Starting Block by Joan G. Stark
Snorkel by Joan G. Stark
St. Francis of Assisi by Nina Butorac
Me after a karate grading ;) by Shanaka Dias
In Honour of Colin Douthwaites by Shanaka Dias
Calvin and Hobbes by Shanaka Dias
(Unfortunately, these animations have been copied over the Internet so many times that their authors are long forgotten...)
Once upon a time there was a Walking Man...
... who fell in love with a Dancing Girl...
He Blowed Her a Kiss...
They got together and Dancing Kid was born!
Here's a Sexy Ass:
Was this the beginning of Internet Porn? Most likely. But...
The Giraffe Says No...
... and the Laughing Kid explodes into laughter:
Were you fan of ASCII Art, back then? Let me know your opinion in the comments.
I hope you've enjoyed this article!
