Educated Guesses

Rob November 1st, 2007

ASCII

I got your attention with the word porn in the heading but now you are going to learn something. ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange” and is a computer term from way back in the day, the 1960s. It defined how computers displayed a common set of characters on the screen and contained 95 different characters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information check out wikipedia

 

 

ASCII Art

ASCII Art is the art of using the aforementioned character set to create pictures. Probably the most commonly used ASCII art is for emoticons…. You know, like the smily face. But, they can actually be far more complex than that like this example:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASCII Art Site:

www.chris.com/ascii/

 

Wikipedia ASCII Art

 

If you have any questions just find someone who watches Star Trek The Original Series, they can probably explain it to you. Also they are the ones who also create the next category of ASCII Art, ASCII Porn.

 

 

ACII Porn

Would the internet be the internet if it didn’t have ASCII porn. Here is a link to a whole site full of ASCII Porn.

 

 

Rob Covert