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# Wow
You mean, it's actually possible to make a picture that vaguely resembles something just by using letters?

What an original concept...

You know, if you used the right tags you could get it to look 'right' on the webpage without all that bollocks about loading it into Word...
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 11:53, archived)
# Cor!
All those letters form up, when you squint really closely, to make a Temporary Unavailable Geocities page :D
(I helped save b3ta! stevierar, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 11:54, archived)
# Ya gotta love it
I thought to myself when I saw the URL "Joan Stark's finally got good hosting!"

Wrong...
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 11:56, archived)
# oh well, my mistake.
Thanks, great advice, I'd never heard of ASCII art before, I wouldn't have posted if I'd have known someone had done it before.. not to b3ta, anyway.
I thought that was the first one.
(I helped save b3ta! Shakmaaaaa!, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 11:56, archived)
# Being fairly new to posting here
I can't say it's never been done on B3ta - however, ASCII art is what was used to make some of the first home computer games, so it's most definately not "new."

In fact, ASCII art predates the invention of the word ASCII - there's officially-recognised "works of art" that are people's portraits or landscape scenes created by running the same piece of paper through a typewriter over and over again...

I'll have to go and look some of those up, they're really rather smart! As is yours... I didn't mean it to sound like a smack-down, just a heads-up to the fact it has been done already, k?

Here, have a baboon.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:03, archived)
# eh?
"quotes....You know, if you used the right tags you could get it to look "right" on the webpage without all that bollocks about loading it into Word......."
Yeah, but then where would the fun be. This is much more like creative fun. Anyroad, if I could be bothered to do that I'd be even more worried about myself. I'm already propagating text-based porn and drinking fish juice. Don't make me worse.
(I helped save b3ta! Shakmaaaaa!, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:01, archived)
# Well, the "fun"
would be in enabling people without Word to view it as it's intended... No?

What flavour fish juice?
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:04, archived)
# Sole
But sometimes salmon, on expensive days.
And sometimes I crunch a little pebble and pretend.
(I helped save b3ta! Shakmaaaaa!, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:08, archived)
# Darn it
That baboon just ate my slippers.
But he's a good natured old soul.
Can he do the macarena?
(I helped save b3ta! Shakmaaaaa!, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:10, archived)
# Of course
just slip him the odd banana laced with exlax, then deny him bathroom privileges and he'll dance however you want!

Must say right here that the Google Toolbar rocks, especially if you use the Experimental search button... It's helped me out 3 times in this thread!
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:15, archived)
# really?
ASCII art predates the internet ...

for some more recent ascii and ansi stuff check here:

www.acid.org/

start your own crew -contribute to the demo scene!

phil.

spiny / torment
(I helped save b3ta! spiny - things are looking up, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:28, archived)