{"id":26861,"date":"2016-11-08T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26861"},"modified":"2016-11-08T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T19:20:20","slug":"ascii-vs-ansi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/08\/ascii-vs-ansi\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCII vs. ANSI"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comic.browserling.com\/62\">Browserling<\/a> does it again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"26862\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/08\/ascii-vs-ansi\/ascii-ansi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ascii-ansi\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?fit=500%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26862\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ascii-ansi\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ascii-ansi.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you not old enough, here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ASCII\">ASCII<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ANSI_escape_code\">ANSI<\/a> Wikipedia pages. \u00a0Back in a day we used these for cool art, fancy user interfaces, email signatures, games and more. \u00a0Have a look at some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascii-code.com\/ascii-art\/\">cool examples of ASCII art<\/a>. \u00a0Now imagine those &#8220;images&#8221; 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