ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time.
Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw.
http://www.acid.org/apps/apps.html
ACiD Productions is a digital art group founded in 1990. If you're into ascii art you might dig their work.
http://www.acid.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACiD_Productions
ANSI/ASCII art was the aesthetic of the pre-internet BBS era. Text graphics was the best you could do over a slow modem link at the time.
Later on we even had vector graphics (anyone remember RipTerm?) which were pretty cool (despite the slow transfer speed) because the limited speed meant you got to watch it progressively draw.
https://wiki.gen.net.uk/doku.php/archive:computers:ripscrip