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ASCII art is a way of creating pictures from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard. It was used in early computers, printers, bulletin boards, and online communication, and has a history dating back to the 19th century.
Learn how to encrypt and decrypt visual information (pictures, text, etc.) using transparencies or opaque sheets. Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique that allows visual images to be encrypted in such a way that the decrypted information appears as a visual image.
Learn about the history and design of the Klingon scripts, used to write the Klingon language in Star Trek productions. Compare the KLI pIqaD, Skybox pIqaD and other variations of the Klingon alphabet.
Braille ASCII (or more formally The North American Braille ASCII Code, also known as SimBraille) is a subset of the ASCII character set which uses 64 of the printable ASCII characters to represent all possible dot combinations in six-dot braille.
Kryptos is a sculpture by Jim Sanborn at the CIA headquarters in Virginia, featuring four copper plates with coded texts. The first three messages have been deciphered, but the fourth one remains a mystery and may involve a Hill cipher.
Leet is a system of modified spellings used by hackers, crackers, and online gamers to express skill or accomplishment. It often uses character replacements, suffixes, and alternative meanings, and has many dialects and memes.
Base64 is a group of schemes that transforms binary data into a sequence of 64 printable characters. Learn the design, alphabet, examples, and variants of Base64, and how it is used for data transfer and web applications.
Learn about the history, usage and encoding of box-drawing characters, a form of semigraphics for text user interfaces. See the Unicode, block elements and legacy computing blocks of box-drawing characters and their symbols.