The winner will be rewarded with some Wired swag, plus a chance to headline Wired.com's Reader ASCII Art Gallery. Update: Computer-generated entries will be disqualified from the competition but ...

After discarding everything with HTML tags in it, [Victor] had an awesome gallery of the ASCII art from webpages all around the Internet. What did he find? Well, there’s far too many ASCII ...

Many wordsmiths have created their magna opera on typewriters, tapping away into the early hours of the morning, but artist Keira Rathbone uses these now largely obsolete machines to type pictures.

Developer Victor Widell has created an automated script that searches through the web and automatically detects ASCII art hidden within its pages. Developer Victor Widell has created an automated ...

Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics ...

Researchers have discovered a weak spot for AI chatbots: ASCII art. ASCII was created during the early days of printers when the printers were unable to handle graphics. ASCII art are images that ...

And, of course, they are often used to create pornography. Section of Ingrid (Textfiles) Though it is still around today, ASCII art reached the zenith of its popularity before the web. It was the ...

How porous AI chatbots are is reflected in the recently published research, ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs. Researchers were able to jailbreak five state-of-the ...