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Create Cool ASCII Text Banners from the Linux Terminal: We have watched Star Wars ASCII animation from the Linux Terminal before. But do you know that from there you can also create cool text graphics or banners that are made up of ASCII characters, which you can use as email signature or simply show off to friends? Yes you can, and the easiest way to do this would be to install FIGlet.
...this is rather old but for those of you who haven't seen Star Wars in ASCII, I'm going to share to you how to do it in the comforts of your own Linux terminal via the ancient Telnet network protocol.
Once upon a time, ASCII art was practiced in e-mail messages sent around the world. Unfortunately, fancy fonts and HTML-ized e-mails have struck a powerful blow to this ancient and noble art form.
