ASCII Art

Long long ago when graphics cards did nothing more than put green (sometimes amber) letters on a black screen, people had whatever was on their WYSE / WANG keyboard to express themselves.

What are the first things the cavemen did after they worked out the fire stuff? Paint. What did they paint? Women.

ASCII art allowed IT guys to make pictures and the first pictures they made were of... Right. Immediately after that they went for other low hanging fruit like the USS Enterprise and Stephen Hawking.

Rather than let that artform die and it is really an art form, it continued on and ultimately there were ASCII art converters that turned video into motion ASCII art. Unsurprisingly one of the very first things converted was...wait for it... Behind the Green Door. IT folk are certainly consistent...

Is it still prevalent? You tell me.