ASCII (American Standard  Code for Information Interchange) is a standard encoding for electronic communication. But people use it for art purposes as well as that retro-internet vibe. Lots of fun things can still  be done usingASCII and is also resource efficient! 


### Art 
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For ASCII Star Wars movie in full in your  terminal run: 
```
Telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl -
```

### Packages
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- **Figlet** is how to create large text encodings in your terminal,  run: 
```
figlet -c "This is an example"
```

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- **Toilet** uses ASCII encodings to create text/images in the terminal as an extension of the older figlet package
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