Every once in a while, I like to write about new sites (or, at least, new to me) that are designed for fun.

First, let’s take a look at some ASCII art. ASCII stands for “American Standard Code for Information Interchange.” In the 1960′s and 1970′s, before the days of dot-matrix printers and other printers capable of graphics, when the only things we could print were alphabet characters, numbers, and some punctuation codes, one of the great pastimes of computer geeks was to create art using those printed characters.

I remember 132 column printouts, about 15 inches wide, where that width was the width of the image — and the image might be 4 or 5 feet tall!

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