From the game asciijump, by
Grzegorz Moskal and others, 2003. via
It has three play modes, World Cup, Training, and network games. In World Cup, it has players like Erykah Badu, Charlie Parker, Thom York, and Bjrök, all musicians that I do not understand.
By fence-post, 2007.
The same web page displayed in different browsers. The so called Acid2 test checks the browser’s support for eg Unicode, HTML and CSS. All these are failed attempts.
Badly compressed JPG2ASCII-conversion by Stevendkay.
ASCII Pumper, a program from 2007 to colorize ASCII art for IRC.
ANSI art on IRC by rebel, steakie, swt1, jazzman, sher, dale, etc. From Pixel Patchwork: “Quilting in Time” Online by Brenda Danet, 2004.
ASCII-visualization of the current weather. Weatherspect by Robobunny (2003/2013) uses data from Wunderground and animates it in coloured ASCII. Snow, lightning, sleet and hail is supported, aswell as the sun and the moon. GIF made from this video by Mewbies.
Since 2002, Google don’t allow “gimmicky use of words, numbers, letters, punctuation, or symbols” on AdWords. Which seems to mean text graphics, emoticons and kaomojis. But some slip through for a while anyway. Supposedly.
SiXT made it in 2007. In 2008 there was Payday, We Are Collective, Metapeople and Logic Immo. In 2009, Worms and MotoFriends. And in 2011 a rabbit snuck through in Ukraine.
Crappy GIF-extract of Cory Arcangel’s movie Urbandale, 2000.
