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This is an ASCII image of a wasp. ASCII artists, like many insects as well as plants an animals species, are slowly becoming extinct. Before what we call kerning (each letter having its own special spacing) there was text that was evenly spaced. The ASCII artist reveled in this domain. They had a limited palette of dots and dashes and letters, but the beauty is that without kerning, it is utterly cross platform. An artist could create a masterpiece with just a typewriter.
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