Creating Retro ANSI art with Escapes.js
Escapes.js is a tiny JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art, a form of computer art that flourished in the mid 90s. ANSI art is a form of art, created by colorizing sequences of characters and blocks drawn in the built-in system font, which makes it easy to transmit across telephone wires. As a result, ANSI art was especially popular on Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes).
Escapes.js is a library developed by Ori Livneh (@scatterblot), designed to be simple and fun to hack on. It has no hard dependencies, but it integrates neatly with jQuery. The source code and documentation are available on GitHub.
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