Editing ASCII art (section)

===ASCII art===
[[File:ASCII full.svg|thumb|There are 95 printable ASCII characters, numbered 32 to 126.]]
The widespread usage of ASCII art can be traced to the computer [[bulletin board system]]s of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The limitations of computers of that time period necessitated the use of text characters to represent images. Along with ASCII's use in communication, however, it also began to appear in the underground online art groups of the period.

An ASCII comic is a form of [[webcomic]] which uses ASCII text to create images. In place of images in a regular comic, ASCII art is used, with the text or dialog usually placed underneath.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Chute|first1=Hillary L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I64VBAAAQBAJ&q=ascii+comic&pg=PA10|title=Comics & Media: A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"|last2=Jagoda|first2=Patrick|date=11 July 2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-23908-8|language=en}}</ref>

During the 1990s, graphical browsing and [[variable-width font|variable-width]] [[Computer font|fonts]] became increasingly popular, leading to a decline in ASCII art. Despite this, ASCII art continued to survive through online [[Multi-user dungeon|MUD]]s, an acronym for "Multi-User Dungeon", (which are textual [[multiplayer]] [[role-playing video game]]s), [[Internet Relay Chat]], [[Email]], [[message boards]], and other forms of online communication which commonly employ the needed [[Monospaced font|fixed-width]].

[[File:Neofetch.png|thumb|Neofetch displaying an Apple logo on [[MacOS Mojave]]]]
ASCII art is seen to this day on the [[Command line interface|CLI]] [[Application software|app]] [[Neofetch]], which displays the [[logo]] of the [[Operating system|OS]] on which it is invoked.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Neofetch Creates Colorful System Information Screens using Ascii Art |url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/neofetch-creates-colorful-system-information-screens-using-ascii-art/ |access-date=2022-07-10 |website=BleepingComputer |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sneddon |first=Joey |date=2020-05-15 |title=NeoFetch: See System Information from the Command Line on Linux |url=http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/neofetch-terminal-system-info-app |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=OMG! Ubuntu! |language=en-GB}}</ref>