ASCII Art

In a galazy far far away, actually a few years ago around late 70s to early 80s before we had graphics and super speedy video cards and all the stuff we are used to today, people only had typewriter keyboards and accordion computer paper, but people being visual creatures wanted to see more than letters and numbers. A few enterprising individuals, or people with too much time, painstakingly made some very nice art using only the characters on a keyboard, hence the term ASCII Art.

Here a few nice examples:

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        .-"""-.       ||::::::==========
       /=      \      ||::::::==========
      |- /~~~\  |     ||::::::==========
      |=( '.' ) |     ||================
      \__\_=_/__/     ||================
       {_______}      ||================
     /` *       `'--._||
    /= .     [] .     { >
   /  /|ooo     |`'--'||
  (   )\_______/      ||
   \``\/       \      ||
    `-| ==    \_|     ||
      /         |     ||
     |=   >\  __/     ||
     \   \ |- --|     ||
      \ __| \___/     ||
 jgs  _{__} _{__}     ||
     (    )(    )     ||
 ^^~  `"""  `"""  ~^^^~^^~~~^^^~^^^~^^^~^^~^



                                   (__
                                   ,_) \_,-/
                                  /__      )__,
                                 )/  _\_    /
                                 /d   \ \   \__
                                /  _.'  /    ( '
                               (,-,) |  |_   |_,
                               ,-.___|_  /_,  /
                               ) .__        )                                 \ \\`-..-    \(`.
                                 \( \_\          `._
                                  \`-,'`.           `-.
                                   `'    `-.__                                                       `,'      |-,._)
                                              !       ,')   `-.
                                              (    ,-'  (   ,-.)
                                               \   \  \ _/   \_
                                                \_ |\_ \`-'._  )
                                                ( ,'( /      )/
                                            __,','__/(
                                       gnv /__(^ 7..1"

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          /    /         /    /          /    /           /    /  /\        /    /  /  \       /    /  /\   \      /    /  /  \   \     /    /__/____\   \    /              \   \   /________________\   \   \_____________________\ / Jugg and Grim

A lot more can be found at the ASCII Art Dictionary.