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This one is as old as the hills. If you know the attribution, could you email it to me for inclusion? Thanks

Whatever did we do before we made big pictures out of a collage of loads of little pictures? Well, we made big pictures using a typewriter, or, as technology progressed, a line printer.

Other ASCII art , including advice on greyscales

[I've had to fake this in places, using bold characters instead of the overstrike available with typewriters. Does technology always improve?]

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