There are some news items from the past year that deserve a second chance. Here we have one such - a picture is worth a thousand words - and this is why ASCII art turns up in code more often than you ...

Checked the source code of our front page lately? We didn’t think to until we got a tip. Dante’s Inferno ASCII art is buried with in it – along with one of six clues to unlock some kind of download.

ASCII is a character code established in the 1960s to include only the characters and symbols necessary for English communication and for computers at the time. Since old computers could not display ...