A standard from 1963 that assigns numbers to letters, digits and symbols. ASCII art builds pictures out of those characters.
Guys, my answer to vectors or raster was ASCII. Don't go where the capitalism is going. Don't go there.
Vuk Ćosić, 1990s Net Art: Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Draves
I'm really excited for a collection that is actually releasing today or tomorrow as of the time of recording, which is Riffs by Hash Runner, which is a new protocol-based art series where he's basically decompiling/compiling Solidity code into these bytecode compositions of different ASCII forms, which is really wonderful.
Conrad House, Digital Art in Q3 2025: Raster, Solana Avant