What are they called!?, gah!!?

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What are they called!?, gah!!?

you know how when you get comments on myspace, and it's like a typed out picture? like the pistol, or the rose, or the "love truck"? i know. sounds wierd. I don't know what they are called. See, i have this site, Crow & Dove, that i use to get all kinds of awesome rock bands *which you should all check out and add -www.myspace.com/crow_and_dove... And I just added this AWES0ME band from Portugal, and I don't want to make a fool of myself by trying to speak Portugese, granted that's even what it's called. XD...... anyway, can ANYBODY tell me what those typed pictures are called, so I can look them up, or, better yet, just give me a site? Thanks a million!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: it's called ASCII art and according to wiki,

it's "an artistic medium that relies primarily on computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard"

here's the page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ascii_art...