Emojis are boring ╭∩╮(•̀_·́)╭∩╮
A heart here, a winking smiley there. Seen it a thousand times and admittedly just not cool anymore. But what should you write instead?
r rather, what did people write to express emotions in text before the time of emojis? ASCII Emoticons is the answer, my friends!
If you don't know what ASCII code is, don't worry. I'll link you to an article about it. All you need to know is that it's a cool and retro-relevant alternative to the same old yellow faces, fruit and vegetable pictures. I've started using them again a lot because they not only express emotions in texts more individually, but they're also a kind of digital art from the past.
In short - ASCII emoticons are just so much cooler ⎚-⎚ ⋆꙳·❅*‧ ‧*❆ ₊⋆ ⎚-⎚
They stimulate the imagination because they are usually not decipherable at first glance. But once you've internalized them, it immediately 'clicks' in your mind and you interpret them automatically.
Need some examples?
( . 人 . )
⎛₎╰(☫)╯₍⎞
▄︻╦芫≡══-- ⌯⁍
6 \__(•_•)__/ 7
8===∍▄█▀█●
[◉°]
So, can you make sense of all the examples shown above? It's perfectly fine if your answer is 'no'. ASCII code is a fantastic form of expression and, in my opinion, a form of digital art that deserves to be preserved. Creating ASCII art yourself requires some practice and creativity. If you're interested in that, great!
In this post, I simply want to encourage you to use this beautiful old form of expression more in your everyday life. I'm sure your friends will be amazed if you don't use 😊 in your next Messenger message, but (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)
Have fun with ASCII emojis! ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ
Links
Ascii Heart Emojis | ♡❤︎♥︎𖹭 | Copy & Paste
We've searched our database for all the emojis that are somehow related to Ascii Heart. Here they are! There are more than 20 of them, but the most relevant ones appear first.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Der American Standard Code for Information Interchange ist eine 7-Bit-Zeichenkodierung; sie entspricht der US-Variante von ISO 646 und dient als Grundlage für spätere, auf mehr Bits basierende Kodierungen für Zeichensätze. Der ASCII-Code wurde zuerst am 17. Juni 1963 von der American Standards Association (ASA) als Standard ASA X3.4-1963 gebilligt und 1967/68 wesentlich sowie zuletzt im Jahr 1986 von ihren Nachfolgeinstitutionen aktualisiert und wird noch benutzt. Die Zeichenkodierung definiert 128 Zeichen und besteht aus 33 nicht druckbaren sowie 95 darauf folgenden druckbaren Zeichen, beginnend mit dem Leerzeichen:
ASCII table - Table of ASCII codes, characters and symbols
A complete list of all ASCII codes, characters, symbols and signs included in the 7-bit ASCII table and the extended ASCII table according to the Windows-1252 character set, which is a superset of ISO 8859-1 in terms of printable characters.
Emoticon
An emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail.
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