One of my first memories of computers had to do with my parents meticulously entering a program into a Franklin 2000 that did an ASCII representation of the guy from MAD Magazine. Since then, graphics have gotten a lot better, and you’d be considered a lunatic for spending so much time trying to reproduce a single image, but ASCII art itself still holds its primitive yet inventive charm. Check out Smashing Magazine’s retrospective on ASCII art here. My favorite is the 1964 ASCII version of the Mona Lisa. Far more interesting than seeing the actual – incredibly small – painting.