Poets and novelists turn words into pictures. But on the Internet, the world-spanning computer network, a group of people is taking this idea a bit further. They are ASCII artists, devoted to takin… ...

Hey, keyboard art enthusiasts — we’re holding a contest on Underwire to see what kind of ASCII art skillz our readers have. A couple weeks ago, I posted an ASCII art slide show based on some ...

Before there were ASCII portraits of Dwight [PDF], there was this: “Keyboard Art,” from Popular Mechanics, October 1948. Typewriters Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox ...

The history of ASCII art goes deeper, and much of it is told only in ... This author and typist is ready to admit that there were a lot of people putting in a lot of hours at the keyboard.

Reese created his art using nothing but a typewriter. Fans of computer art are no doubt familiar with ASCII art: representational pieces created using nothing but the characters on a computer ...

ASCII Art is a way to form pictures and images using simple keyboard symbols, like dashes or plus signs; which has been used since the days of the Vic 20 or Commodore Pet to show images on a screen.

Using a combination of ASCII art, Twitter’s keyboard shortcuts, and 455 tweets, the company has created a flipbook-style animation that it’s dubbing the world’s first Twitter commercial.