X-Nico

unusual facts about ASCII art



Christmas Tree EXEC

Written by a student at the Clausthal University of Technology in the REXX scripting language, it drew a crude Christmas tree as text graphics, then sent itself to each entry in the target's email contacts file.

ΜClinux

The "μClinux-dist" userland utilities contain tiny HTTP servers, a small 'sh like' shell, and even a fun ASCII art Star Wars film.


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Shift JIS art

Unlike Western ASCII art, which is generally designed to be viewed with a monospaced font, Shift JIS art is designed around the proportional-width MS PGothic font supplied with Microsoft Windows, which is the default font for web sites in Japanese versions of Windows.