ASCII Owls

Researcher cynthia-ga found this ASCII owl in her web wanderings:

{o,o}
|)__)
-”-”-

But the genre goes back further than that. Modernmechanix.com is featuring an article from a 1948 issue of Popular Mechanics that shows an owl created with typewriter art:

ascii-owl.jpg

Here’s another, from http://www.asciipr0n.com/m1a9366b/ascii/owl.html (I didn’t hyperlink the URL because some of the other ASCII Art at that site is adult-oriented):

ascii-owl.png

5 Responses to “ASCII Owls”

  1. Rasmus says:

    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”-”-
    O RLY?

  2. Gary says:

    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”-”-

    ya rly.

  3. Paul says:

    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”-”-

    no wai

  4. Ein Uhu says:

    I hacked this owl, including initials :)

    …`@.@´
    …(.v.)
    —R”W”P————————

  5. Ein Uhu says:

    Sorry, only worrks with unproportional fonts … so correcting:

    …`@.@´
    …(,,v,,,)
    —R”W”P————————

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