Tag: ASCII

Have you ever wondered what the Web was like before the Mosaic Web browser? If you were born in the last 20-odd years, or you only discovered your inner geek recently, did you miss out on monochrome monitors and the dial-up BBS era? Well, here's your chance to get a sneak peek at history: grab the ChromeLite extension and marvel as the entire Web is transformed into ASCII characters. Now, ...

It seems like HD is all the rage these days. A friend of mine recently did a month-long market research before putting down a sizable lump of cash for a 47-inch behemoth. And yes, it really is very impressive. Still, sometimes I find myself wanting to go back to simpler times; back when men were real men, and ASCII animations were all the rage. Why I remember back in the good old BBS and ...

ASCII-O-Matic is a fun web toy from Typorganism that will turn any photo you upload into fab ASCII art. There are many other such web sites and programs, but ASCII-O-Matic wraps it in a nice Flash interface and gives you a few extra options. You can choose black and white or color, and if you don't want ASCII it can also render an image out of blocks. Uploading is a tad limited, allowing only ...

We all hate opening our emails, only to find out we are lucky enough to receive specials on Viagra, enlargement pills and devices, and notes from someone in Nigeria looking to give us $1Million. Well, Alex Dragulescu has created something awesome and beautiful from all those bothersome spam messages. Alex has created a program that takes the ASCII values that are found in in the text of spam ...

Okay, the title of this post is a complete lie—you can't get Google Maps in a terminal, at least not yet, but ASCII Maps is a fun Google Maps hack that kinda feels like it. ASCII Maps replaces Google Maps' map and satellite imagery with colorful ASCII versions. Scrolling around is agonizingly slow on my machine and it's liable to hurt your eyes after not much use, but it has most of Google ...