was producing realistic images, also on line printers, by overprinting several characters on top of one another.Note that it was not ASCII art in a sense that the 1403 was driven by an EBCDIC-coded platform and the character sets and trains available on the 1403 were derived from EBCDIC rather than ASCII, despite some glyphs commonalities.

ASCII art

The widespread usage of ASCII art can be traced to the computer bulletin board systems of the late 1970s

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