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...Plans are the main reasons why fingering people is so entertaining. More or less, you can write whatever you want in a .plan. Just type pico .plan, pour out that creativity, and save the changes. Many people like to load their .plans with song lyrics, famous quotes, and ASCII art (pictures composed of keyboard text). In a way, .plans are like eyes, windows to the soul...
...year, his .plan grew to over 3000 lines. Cooper elaborates, "Originally, my .plan was just like a small diary where I put random stuff about what I was doing, arguments I had with chemistry, and other silly things like that. After that, I was introduced to the art of ASCII, so I started incorporating...such things as Star Trek ships, a dinosaur, a panda, a biohazards sing, and other eclectic items. I received several messages from people complaining... that [my .plan] tied up their computer for twenty minutes and that I made their lives hell...
Today, the most frequent use of ASCII art is in "signature files" that students often put at the end of e-mail messages they send. ASCII also appears in "plans" that appear when students on the Internet use the "finger" command to find other users, according to Tarr...
Lots of time and a little artistic sense is all that is needed for these computer artists. "People who can draw on paper usually tend to do ASCII art better," Alicea says...
Unfortunately, the art form may have peaked in popularity. Many ASCII artists have moved on to designing World Wide Web pages, Tarr says...