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Better in the 90th, there we convert an photo to an ASCII image with very few bytes (AI free)
Ah, the days of hand made ASCII porn in the 80s. Delivered over 30 mins on a 1200 baud modem.
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I want to get off mr. bones wild ride...
And then apparently convert the ASCII image to PNG 😛
Not really needed, but posting it as is in Lemmy, it will have a wrong line adjustment, copy plain text in Lemmy don't work correctly. At these times we shared ASCII images with the Finger protocoll (since 1977)
Write in your console (all OS, still works):
finger zerush@happynetbox.comWhoa, buy me a drink before you ask me to finger you!
But very cool, TIL!