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=== Control Character Details ===== Control Character Details ==== Other Facts ===== The ASCII Group ===There is a small private company called ASCII, or The ASCII Group, which has absolutely nothing to do with the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The private company's use of the name ASCII should be challenged in court, but this has yet to happen. All of the combined technical intellect of this company couldn't devise a toddlers ABC picture table, let alone a standard set of codes for electronic equipment and computers.=== ASCII Art ===When presented with a text based terminal only, the creative genius of the human mind still can produce art. With origins in the computer bulletin board systems of the late 1970s and early 1980s, ASCII characters were used to form pictures. Other places where ASCII art can be created is on typewriters, teletypes, text printers, modem BBS, e-mail, and Usenet. ____ _____ ______________ ____ ____ ______ / _ | / ___// ____/ _/ _/ / _ | / __ \/_ __/ / /_| | \__ \/ / / / / / / /_| | / /_/ / / / / /__| | __/ / /___ / / / / / /__| |/ / / / / / /_/ |_/____/\____/___/___/ /_/ |_/_/ |_| /_/=== Emoticons ===On text based chat mediums, starting with IRC (Internet Relay Chat) individuals used a combination of 2 or more characters to represent a mood or emotion. The most basic example is the smile :) if you tild your head 90 degrees left you will see the colon represents two eyes and the closing parenthesis represents the smiling mouth.Claims of earlier use of emoticons can be traced back to the early 80's (before IRC) with the use of the 3 character combination :-) to indicate a joke and :-( to indicate something that is not meant to be a joke.