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Art done in plain text. This is fairly difficult. Portraits of people done in ASCII art usually only work if the person has some major distinguishing characteristics.

From American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the set of bits created in the 1980s to represent characters.

fun and useful to bypass cnesors on message boards

like this
....................../´¯/)
....................,/¯../
.................../..../
............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸
........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\
........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')
.........\.................'...../
..........''...\.......... _.·´
............\..............(
..............\.............\...

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You just... dickbutt ascii in chat!
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Sued by the ASCII Rightholders for using their encoding

"Oh man I sure loved your Word Document last night"
"I got ASCII-ed because of posting it online"
"Oh maaaaan"

A series of intials representing a misinterpreted line in a Japanese video game called "Developer II, Need Service Now".

The line initially said (in Japanese), "Listen...I'm Pat Casey and I'm crazy!".

This was mistranslated into the English version of the game as saying "See - A Silly Casey Is I" (note the initials).

S-ASCII, there are no examples sir.

Very sexually explicit ASCII art

My cyberbae let me do ASCII to mouth with her in the public chatroom.

An ascii-hole is a troll, a button-pusher, someone who deliberately behaves like an anal sphincter (asshole) safely behind the anonymity of the internet.

In real life they behave just like "normal people" and are well behaved, soft spoken, well-mannered and, often, highly educated.

"john" is such an ascii-hole, he came into "mary's" post about her anniversary and deliberately provoked her by calling her fat and a bitch.