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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:

cure of vitiligo

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

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14 Responses to “ASCII Owls”

  1. Rasmus says:
    August 17th, 2006 at 12:05 pm

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

  2. Gary says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”-”-

    ya rly.

  3. Paul says:
    February 3rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”-”-

    no wai

  4. Ein Uhu says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm

    I hacked this owl, including initials :)

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

  5. random says:
    January 15th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    {O , O}
    ( ; ; ; )
    m m

    fat owl

  6. bachus says:
    June 30th, 2010 at 11:42 am

    ^_^
    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -m-m-

  7. Sean says:
    August 27th, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    YAORLY GUISE

    ^ … ^
    / O , o \
    \ /
    |) : : : (|
    “;,. .,;”
    =W=W=

  8. shawnathan says:
    October 28th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    „__„
    {o,o}
    |)__)
    -”–”-

    O RLY???

  9. Yadie says:
    December 21st, 2010 at 10:09 am

    (\ /)
    ( . .) < (…wrong forum…)
    (")(")

  10. king owl says:
    January 9th, 2011 at 1:58 am

    |”_”|
    (OO)
    \/
    ( )
    |_|_

    King owl

  11. MyLaina says:
    March 20th, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    , ,
    (o,o)
    |)__)
    -”-”-

  12. Euda says:
    May 24th, 2011 at 10:53 pm

    .__.
    (°,°)
    /)_)
    ” “

  13. Bryn says:
    March 30th, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    *__*
    {O’O}
    /)_)
    ” ”
    DOH! owl

  14. myself says:
    February 14th, 2013 at 10:44 pm

    {ಠ□ಠ}