ASCII porn

Also, ASCII porn could be composed by hand using nothing more than a text editor, without the need for a model or camera.

With the advent of the World-Wide Web, ASCII porn largely slipped into obscurity.

The textfiles.com ASCII art archive also contains a significant amount of ASCII porn (including a mirror of asciipr0n.com).

Pornographic images had been transmitted over the Internet as ASCII porn but to send images over network needed computers with graphics capability and also higher network bandwidth.

Yes, this is a stark break from my usual neoluddist tendencies, such as preferring board to computer games, my steadfast refusal to acquire a cell phone, and my frequent visits to ASCII porn sites.

ASCII porn was the world's first internet pornography, and was popular (among the then fewer computer users) before the invention of the World-Wide Web, and often found on BBSes and other text mode terminal-based systems that could be reached via direct modem dial-up.

A contributing factor to the relative popularity of ASCII porn in its time was high compatibility: the standard ASCII character set could be displayed on most computer monitors -even on early desktops/terminals incapable of displaying digital images- and could be printed on most printers.