ASCII art ASCII art .nfo is a contraction of "info", or "information". It is used as a three-letter filename extension indicating a generic ASCII text file designed to be viewed with a text editor or specially designed NFO viewers. ...more on Wikipedia about ".nfo"
>>1-san (>>1さん, ichisan) is a common Shift_JIS art character on the popular Japanese BBS 2channel (2ch for short), standing in for the user who started a given thread. He is commonly characterized as a clueless newbie who rarely thinks through his posts and can't deal with the consequences of his actions. ...more on Wikipedia about "1-san"
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Alpha Design is a is an IBM PC demoscene group from Finland which was originally formed in 1994 under the name Nightmare Productions or NMP by founding members Britelite and Chaj. After a few haphazard identity changes, careful consideration was given and ultimately the group members settled upon Alpha Design in 1996, which it still goes by today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpha Design"
ANSI art is a computer artform that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM codepage 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS environments. ANSI art also contains special ANSI escape codes that color text with the 16 foreground and 8 background colours offered by ANSI.SYS, an MS-DOS device driver loosely based upon the ANSI X3.64 standard for terminal emulation. Some ANSI artists take advantage of the cursor control sequences within ANSI X3.64 in order to create animations, commonly referred to as ANSImations. ANSI art and text files which incorporate ANSI codes carry the de facto .ANS file extension. ...more on Wikipedia about "ANSI art"
ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII. The term is also used more loosely to refer to text based art in general. They can be created with any text editor, and are 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. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCII art"
ASCII stereograms are a form of ASCII art based on stereograms to produce the optical illusion of a 3D image by crossing the eyes appropriately using a single image or a pair of images next to each other. ...more on Wikipedia about "ASCII stereogram"
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The AVATAR protocol (Advanced Video Attribute Terminal Assembler and Recreator) is a system of escape sequences occasionally used on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes). It has largely the same functionality as the more popular ANSI escape codes, but has the advantage that the escape sequences are much shorter. AVATAR can thus render colored text and artwork much faster over slow connections. ...more on Wikipedia about "AVATAR"
An emoticon, sometimes called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters such as :), ^-^, or :-) or a small image that is intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. Emoticons are a form of paralanguage commonly used in email messages, in online bulletin boards, or in chat rooms. The word emoticon is a portmanteau which popular etymology bases on emotion and icon. In truth, the second element is con, short for console, not icon. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emoticon"
Giko Cat or Giko neko (ギコ猫) is a character-based Japanese fictional cat. He is considered one of the mascots of 2channel, the largest web-based bulletin board system in Japan, but actually predates that BBS. He is thought to have originated in Ayashii World (Strange World), an old web-based bulletin board system in Japan around 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Giko Cat"
Impure ASCII, also known as Impure ASCII 1940 is an ASCII art group founded in January of 1998 by two artists from Canada who went by the pseudonyms The Genocidal Servant ( nicknamed tEEGE and formerly known as Incesticide) and Helter Skelter. The five original members of the group were Dark Stalker, Helter Skelter, Mystic Rage, Shypht and The Genocidal Servant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Impure ASCII"
JavE stands for Java Ascii Versatile Editor. It is a GUI tool for drawing ASCII art. ...more on Wikipedia about "JavE"
Joan G. Stark, also known by her pseudonym Spunk, is a prolific ASCII artist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joan Stark"
Mimic ASCII is an ASCII art group co-founded in the year 1998 by three artists known by the pseudonyms Serial Toon, Konami and Black Jack. Second to Remorse, Mimic is the longest running group still active, and currently holds the record for the most monthly releases of ASCII artpacks ever (82 consecutive monthly artpack releases as of May 2005). Their group mascot is the crab. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mimic ASCII"
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(Mona (ASCII art)) Monā (モナー) is the most well-known Shift JIS art character. His name comes from his favorite phrase, "omae mo nā!", which is best rendered in English as "You too!" or "So do you!". He is considered to be one of the mascots of 2channel, the largest Internet forum in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mona (ASCII art)"
The Adventures of Nerd Boy is a webcomic by Joaquim Gândara made of ASCII symbols. Gândara's work is influenced to some extent by artist Don Rosa. ** While a completely ASCII webcomic was not a novel concept when Nerd Boy was created (the first strip is dated August 6, 2001), it is indeed the best known, and the only one that is still actively produced. More than 600 strips have been created. There was a large period of inactivity after episode 625, which has severely damaged alt.ascii-art traffic. On December 18, 2005 after an 11 month hiatus, episode 626 finally appeared. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nerd Boy"
PabloDraw is a text editor for Windows, designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its DOS-based predecessors; ACiDDraw ( 1994) and TheDraw ( 1986). ...more on Wikipedia about "PabloDraw"
Pedobear is a variation on Kuma, a meme character that first appeared on 2channel. It was adopted on the 4chan boards and given a different name and personality. Typically Pedobear represents a pedophile and is often used by visitors of 4chan to signify masturbatory enjoyment of lolicon, as in the phrase "Pedobear approves". ...more on Wikipedia about "Pedobear"
Remorse ASCII, or Remorse 1981, is the official ASCII sub-label of ACiD Productions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Remorse ASCII"
Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters within the Shift_JIS character set, a superset of ASCII. Naturally there are many similarities between Shift_JIS artwork and ASCII art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shift JIS art"
Shii-chan is an Shift JIS art cat, portrayed as living in a cardboard box. She is considered one of the mascots of 2channel, the largest Internet forum in Japan, but actually predates that BBS. She is thought to have originated in Ayashii World (Strange World), an old web-based bulletin board system in Japan around 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shii-chan"
Superior Art Creations (SAC) is an underground artscene group which caters primarily to and is well known within the warez scene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Superior Art Creations"
Text Mode demos are real-time calculated computer animations which make use of the native text graphic mode(s) common on the IBM PC. The Text Mode Demo Scene is one of many different facets of the demoscene. ...more on Wikipedia about "Text mode demos"
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