"ZOZ", where the sprite I based this picture on comes from, runs off a fork of the ZZT engine and thus uses an EGA #textmode graphics display, utilizing #ANSIArt. The ANSI #artscene originated in the BBS era, which was accessed primarily with IBM PCs that used the "code page 437" character set. To this day, text art remains a principal component of the wider artscene, if not *the* main component.