ASCII ART article !
  
Text art / Calligram / typewriter art - keyboard art / BBS (Bulletin Board System) / ASCII / 7-bit - 8-bit / ANSI / block of high ASCII / "Amiga" or "Oldskool" and "Newskool "style / Shift_JIS (japan)

What is ASCII Art ?
ASCII ART (AA) or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character of 128 characters which are standard on almost all types of computer.

ANSI art or The American National Standards Institute is a computer art form that was widely used at one time on bulletin board systems. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437

poetry is created with aide of typesetting and the early typewriter (also called calligram).Radio teletype (RTTY) art is created using the Baudot 5-bit code.

Computer underground text art scene : artscene, ACiD (ANSI Creators in Demand)
ACiD is the longest-running art group of its kind (followed shortly by iCE, hence the two separate sections on the site). These files have been contributed directly to the site from the head of ACiD, RaD_Man, and should generally be considered the "official" versions. (src : artscene.textfiles.com)

Subculture community of artists created competitive groups, similar to hackers (and sometimes overlapping these groups). These groups would assemble their best, most current art into downloadable "packs" for distribution on BBS systems. These could be simply zipped packs of loose art with some text files explaining them, or encoded programs that displayed the art, sometimes with accompanying music in MOD format.

tools : Artists utilize special editors created for the sole purpose of creating text art using those special characters, tools like TheDraw or ACiDDraw for MS DOS or Pablodraw for Windows.


Japan : Shift_JIS is a character encoding for the Japanese language, originally developed by the Japanese company ASCII Corporation
http://aa.en.utf8art.com/








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references :
http://artscene.textfiles.com/information/ascii-newmedia.txt
http://artscene.textfiles.com/information/faq-altasciiart.txt
https://411.rip/writings/text-art-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art
https://archive.ph/20121220052340/http://sixteencolors.net/
https://web.archive.org/web/20091026141759/http://geocities.com/SoHo/7373/history.htm

Art History of ASCII by https://www.roysac.com/asciiarthistory.html

Keyboard Text Art From Over Twenty Years Before ASCII https://www.roysac.com/blog/2007/02/keyboard-text-art-from-over-twenty-years-before-ascii/

Future Potentials for ASCII art, https://goto80.com/chipflip/06/


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for alphabets annexes :
The Baudot code : digital communication and telegraphic alphabet :


Micrography

Kufic scripts : 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kufic