On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:55:14 -0500
"David H. Barr" <dhbarr at gmail.com> wrote:
  There are many, many, MANY programs that do such
things.  It felt like
 a matter of time, and I disagree with you that it won't catch on,
 sadly :/  I predict hypertext ascii art links, with stylesheets to
 turn off the underlining.
 -dhbarr the saddened.
  
The worst case of all is when people do things like 'ascii art
animation' sequences, but package it in something like Macromedia Flash.
 I've seen it a few times, and it's just something to shake your head
sadly at.