Tag Archives: ascii

By Sonya Rapoport. Unknown year, but looks like something from the 1980’s Shoe Field exhibition that we’ve posted about before.

Nice collaborative effort 32 years ago by David Kiser, Abbey Birk, Susie Oviatt and Ed Wisniewski.

Amiga ASCII by Mortimer Twang, most likely mid-1990s. Picked from various collies.

Amiga ASCII characters by Mortimer Twang, probably mid-1990s.

Amiga ASCII by Desoto, 1995-1996.

Graffiti-inspired ANSI and ASCII by Smooth (5m), 2020-2021. Some of these have unusually high resolution (160-255 chars wide). via sixteencolors

By K. Wheeler (Rosebud) 1992-1993.

Normand Veilleux, ca 1994. He wrote a tutorial on his special technique to make ASCII.

By Roy Sussman (aka Phoenix), 1991-1993. One of the more blocky ASCII-stylists on Usenet back then. Also see Oviatt & Keech.

By Susie Oviatt, 1992-1994. She was part of the minority of people who made blocky ASCII instead of line-based ASCII on Usenet in the early 1990s (also see RikRok).

Also: Susie Oviatt’s ASCII art tutorial.