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The Whelk — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:50 -0800

Newmoticons: Fresh new emoticons for happy internet people.

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not_on_display — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:36:29 -0800

⍾ LI'L MUSHROOM GUY
⎌ LEAP-FROGGIN' O's
☣☮ BIOHAZARDOUS HIPPIE WARNING
∰ THREE VIOLINS SHARING HULA HOOP
☃ Unicode table for you: with sliders to help you whiz through all those characters you didn't even know you had. ☃
⫷ All symbols in the table have links underneath them which lead to active Wikipedia Pages. ⫸
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#..this is my area....#

grobstein — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:52:39 -0800

Your World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor. The changes made by other people appear on your screen as they happen. Everyone starts in the same place, but you can scroll through the world using your mouse. Put any letters at the end of the URL to go to a new world. For example, http://yourworldoftext.com/mefi. They all start off blank. If you use something hard to guess, no one will be able to visit your world unless you tell them about it. (About)

ATDT

These Premises Are Alarmed — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:24:00 -0800

Hacker Photos, 1990-1993. [via]

no image tag, no problem

HuronBob — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:00:23 -0800

ascii....the original images! We don't need no stinkin' img tag! /| |\ / | | \ | | | | Neeaah, Whats up Doc !?! \ | | / \|w|/ / /_ _\ / , /\ _:()_():_ /] ||_ : ._=Y=_ : / / [)(_\, ',__\W/ _,' / \ [) \_/\ _/'='\ /-/\) [_| \ \ /// \ '._ / / :; \ \/// / | '` / ;:: \ `|: : |',_.' """ \_|: : | |: : |'". /`._.' \/ / /| / | \ / / '. '. / '. ' / \ \ / / \'=, .----' / \ (\__ (((____/ \ \ ) '.\_)

Let Me Just Roll Up My Sleeves to Make Sure You're Not Dying

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:06:05 -0800

Carl Zimmer's Science Tattoo Emporium - "Underneath their sober lab coats and flannel shirts, scientists hide images of their scientific passions. Here they are revealed to all." From the science journalist and writer responsible for The Loom and numerous other published works.

ASCII Game Revolution

blahblahblah — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:12:58 -0800

In these days of high-powered graphics, there is a ASCII gaming renaissance underway. Among the most interesting are: ASCII Sector, a remake of the classic Wing Commander Privateer; the fast-paced Doom RL; the Ultima V influenced Legerdemain; and the much-discussed strategy game/frustration simulator Dwarf Fortress (now with a new unofficial tileset and experimental 3-D visualizer that may prevent some eye-bleeding), And, of course, the classic, complex Rogue-like RPGs continue to go strong, those interested may want to check out this list of the best new rogue-like game releases from ASCII dreams or the list of releases from Temple of the Roguelike.

ASCII ROCK

Anything — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:00 -0800

Before there was MTV, before mp3s or YouTube, there was ASCII ROCK!

Slaves to Armok: God Of Blood, Chapter 2.0

BlackLeotardFront — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:57:19 -0800

Dwarf Fortress
Version 0.27.169.32a, released October 29, 2007 A.D.
You are now free to waste the remainder your life.(prev)

Can't let the steampunks have all the fun.

delmoi — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:09:21 -0800

ASCII goggles.

All go, no show

BlackLeotardFront — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:18:00 -0800

The menacingly complex roguelike (previously) world-building game Dwarf Fortress (previously) is busting into the mainstream with an article in a gamer mag. Scans: page 1, page 2, page 3. For the less ASCII-minded among us, Let's Play has a thorough (and absurd, and tragic) chronicle of the fortress of Koganusan, or Boatmurdered, so you won't have to wait 20 minutes for the world to generate and be populated with mandrills and kobolds. via tigsource, where you should also check out their latest recommended independent games list.

&redirect;

four panels — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:53:21 -0800

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Everything old is new again.

crunchland — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:48:23 -0800

Flashcii is a tool for creating ascii animations. Flaschii converts image files into ascii art, and provides a Flash-inspired interface for building animated sequences. Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Toogle

DBAPaul — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:42:19 -0800

Toogle Google image search represented in ASCII. [via Hot Links]

Ouch, my eyes, my ears!

page404 — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:17:36 -0800

Midi is to music as ASCII is to art: Music videos converted to text and MIDI. [via waxy]

What's YOUR favourite ascii fart? \m\ (-_-) /m/

holloway — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:52:28 -0800

Ascii Farts.

asciimatrix

oissubke — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:14:09 -0800

Matrix in ASCII. Nice.

jpg2asc

crunchland — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 09:12:57 -0800

jpg2ascii

TiggleTaggleTiger — Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:18:31 -0800

Convert your pictures to HTML. So cool I nearly wet myself.
Seriously.

sylloge — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:21:24 -0800

ASCII art storytelling about ASCII art. Very soothing in the middle of a hectic work day. Make sure to follow the calibration instructions. (Found it via the 5k ref logs; we should make those public.)

snarkout — Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:17:57 -0800

JAVE is an tool that helps ease the pain of creating ASCII art. In the days before GIFs, ASCII art roamed the plains of the Internet; people created hundreds of text-based pictures. Some spectacular examples are out there, but the rise of the graphical web has put a crimp in this art form. Perhaps tools like JAVE and FIGlet can help stave off the end.

mathowie — Thu, 19 Apr 2001 10:44:19 -0800

ascii Pac-Man that's free, runs in win/dos and linux, and is complete with color graphics and smart ghosts.

da5id — Thu, 27 Jul 2000 06:08:49 -0800

I am speechless. I can't imagine the time and effort it took to create this. Unless of course there is some program out there that will do it for you. If there is, then it is just "kewl."

mathowie — Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:19:13 -0800

Much in the spirit of the ASCII Star Wars site, Neale over at wetlog has unveiled an short ASCII version of American Beauty (when is the academy going to finally recognize the brilliant work of ASCII illustrators everywhere?). He's also running a contest for players of The Sims. I've been thinking about getting this game since I first saw it, but Neale's contest is enough to push me over the edge and actually buy it. I'd like to try getting my Sims to perform either Magnolia or The Ice Storm.