I’ve create some little ASCII art occasionally, some of it you can find on this page.
Thumbs Up
Back in 2015 I was in an IRC channel with some friends and we were trying to decide on an ASCII translation of the thumbs up emoji. Initially we used :+1:, which was quite boring. Next ^8 was suggested by my brother as a more graphical alternative and we used this for approximately 6 hours. Then I suggested ^B as an improved version of this idea, which we have been using ever since.
 and
[Vaikunda Raja](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vaikunda_Raja)
from
[Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Thumbs-up_position_transparent.png) under the
[GFDL](http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)](img/thumbs-up-ascii.png "Graphical illustration of how ^B corresponds to the shape of a
thumbs up")
Based on work by Tubezlob and Vaikunda Raja from Wikimedia Commons under the GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0
To this day I’m still working on making the rest of the world aware of this great symbol. I often try to use it in other chat groups, but it’s unfortunately still not understood by most people. So I need your help to popularize it. Please use this ascii emoji wherever needed and explain to people what it means.
Haunt
This is a logo for the Guile-based static site generator Haunt:
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| `Y88888P V88888Y' |
| `Y8P' `V8Y' |
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35C3
I also made a simple ASCIIfication the 35C3 refreshing memories logo:
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For the 36th communication congress I made my own interpretation of the motto “Resource Exhaustion” in ASCII:
36C3:
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E X H A U S T I O N
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Replicant
Here’s an ASCII rendition of the Replicant logo.
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