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...Addressing pornography on the Internet, Zittrain details a bit of history. "Pornography on the Internet all started with ASCII Art." ASCII art are the pictures often passed along in email forwards composed with only what's available on a keyboard, he explains. "They used periods, commas, dashes and question marks to draw. If you stood back far enough, you could get a decent picture...
These days, I too have been spending quite a bit a lot of time staring at green columns of digital characters that stream down my computer screen. The ASCII characters on my screen don't look nearly as cool as the ones created by Warner Brothers. Nor do these characters represent anything close to an elaborate human prison designed by intelligent robots gone sour. But Keanu's Matrix is my Unix, and like my stolid friend, I can see what people are up to. Sort...
...Mail merged cover letters and unformatted ASCII text tell me nothing about an individual's presentation skills and personal style," Farmer said...
Bill Gates' full name is apparently William Gates III. And as we all know, he goes by Bill. According to the e-mail, if you convert the letters in "Bill Gates III" to their ASCII values and sum them, they equal 666, the biblical mark of the devil. (For those computer illiterates out there, ASCII codes are an international standard which assigns a number from 1-256 to each of the symbols on a standard keyboard...
While this may be passed off as a coincidence, the ASCII codes of "MS-DOS 6.31" and "WINDOW95" also...