The evolution of ASCII art in the age of computers

Abstract

The art was a milestone in the raising of intellectual individuals. This is where the willingness of creating beautiful drawings appeared. With the beginning of the computer era a lot of branches in art have slightly changed, some of them had a great improvement and even new branches of art have appeared. In the case of ASCII Art, a great improvement. The concept remained the same, it was used to represent graphical images, figures by the use of characters as the unit. Despite the fact that ASCII Art has found its use more with the appearance of the computers its history begins long time ago, when there wasn’t such a thing as text.