ASCII Art from 1934

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by martian • 17 years ago

30 10 17 years ago

muck• 17 years ago

I fail to see how this is ASCII art. ASCII didn't even exist before 1934. A more appropriate title might be Typewriter Art.

mindstab• 17 years ago

Lots of forms of art don't get a genera name until after they've started ;). Just because the first "cubist" painting came before the term got coined doesn't mean it isn't a cubist painting. And just because this showed up a few decades before ASCII itself was hammered out doesn't mean we all don't know exactly what it is when it's described as ASCII art.

Luyt2• 17 years ago

It is also reminiscent of an embroidering pattern.

Semiapies• 17 years ago

For that matter, it's not "ASCII art" because it's encoded that way (as opposed to "UTF-16 art"), it's because it's made up of text characters in a grid.

This certainly counts.

malkia• 17 years ago

Was Jesus Christian, and were Neandertahls from Neandertahl, and so and so...

eru2• 17 years ago

(The h in `Neandertahl' isn't quite right.)

ASCII Art from 1934

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