What is ASCII Art?
ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is a text format standard for computers. ASCII art is text art that was created on computers who use this ASCII standard. The text art created on the IBM PC, which use text characters beyond the ASCII standard are also called ASCII, even though it is technically incorrect. The IBM PC become the most widely used computer in the world and people called things ASCII, even if they were not. There is no sense to debate about it, because it won’t change what already happened. Table of Contents • Articles • Text Art History • Articles about ASCII Art (and ANSI Art) • Text Art Scene Related Articles and other Content • Tutorials • 7-Bit ASCII Art Tutorials • 8-Bit ASCII/High ASCII/Block ASCII Art Tutorials • ANSI Art Tutorials • Image to Text Converters (Pictures/Videos to ANSI/ASCII) • Online Image to Text Converters • Desktop Image to Text Converters (Windows) • Text to “ASCII” Converters Articles Where does text art com
Standard ASCII art is made with characters, such as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \ | – _ + % @ < ; ! = # . , : > ( ] / & $ ^ ‘ ` ” ~ ) [ { } ? * These characters are part of the ASCII (as – kee, America Standard Code for Information Interchange) set. This part of the ASCII set, is called the ‘printable set’ (7 bits, characters 32 to 126). There’s also non-standard ASCII art, which contain ‘contral codes’. ASCII art is popular, with several ASCII art groups on the various information services. Before computers, ASCII art was made on typewriters, teletype machines (5 bit), and was created typographically. There are even tee-shirts with the 🙂 smiley.
