I even got to waste meters of continuous form to assemble panels with this type of 'image', formed from the conversion of the points of the images in ASCII characters.
Built originally as an economical way to transmit images in BBS (Board System Bulletin), is an artistic expression intimately linked to the beginning of the popularization of computers. Who has over 40 years certainly have heard, or even printed on a dot matrix printer, what popularly known as ASCII Art.