There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. An old computer art form is ...

Robert W. "Bob" Bemer, 84, who helped invent the language used by most of the world's computers to translate text to numbers and who was the first scientist to warn of the Y2K problem, died of cancer ...

ASCII art is as much a part of the Internet as emoticons, cats, or lol. We're talking about pictures made from text: letters, numbers, and special characters like # * and . They look like this.

Back in the 1960s, some genius at Bell Labs figured out how to use the language of his computers to draw pictures. This art form is called ASCII art and although it requires a computer to make, the ...