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Tanicea Alicea '95 received her introduction to ASCII art when students circulated a popular series of cows through electronic mail during her first year...
...cows hardly represent the limits of ASCII art. Even something as complex as a rendition of the Mona Lisa-composed of letters, semi-colons, dollar signs and other miscellaneous symbols-is possible. ASCII (pronounced "ask-ee") is an acronym for American Standard Code for Informational Interchange. Or, for the computer neophyte, you're standard keyboard text...
...Hacker's Dictionary, published by the MIT Press, defines ASCII art as: "the fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set, namely...
...computer labs of the old days, they'd print [ASCII art] out and put them up on the wall," Tarr says...
...frequent use of ASCII art is the smiley faces that often appear in e-mail messages. Some popular faces are,: "smile,": ("frown", and;) "wink...