First and foremost, for the non-techy people, what is ASCII?
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that utilizes computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). The term is also loosely used to refer to text based art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, like on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.
ASCII was the technology before friendly user interface came about from the birth of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. Those were the days of Lotus, Wordstar and others I can’t remember. XD
ASCII are mostly used for chat conversations right now to easily portray images without uploading of any images.
View one of the best ASCII works ever done depicting Star Wars!
You’ve just got to give kudos for the creator of this movie! Woohoo!