Mimic ASCII is an ASCII art

ASCII art

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters...

 group co-founded in the year 1998 by three artists known by the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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s Serial Toon, Konami and Black Jack. Second to Remorse

Remorse ASCII

Remorse ASCII, or Remorse 1981, is the official ASCII sub-label of ACiD Productions.-History:Remorse was established in late 1994 by two IBM-PC scene ASCII artists from San José, California who went by the pseudonyms Necromancer and Necronite....

, Mimic is the longest running group still active, and currently holds the record for the most monthly releases of ASCII

ASCII

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

 artpack

Artpack

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s ever (84 consecutive monthly artpack releases as of April 2006). Their group mascot

Mascot

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 is the crab

Crab

True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" , or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax...

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Mimic also maintains the Christ ASCII Archive, one of the largest FTP

File Transfer Protocol

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 archive

Archive

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s of artpacks and collies

ASCII art

ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters...

 in existence.

Releases

• [ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/mimic/packs/mimic01.zip Mimic #01] (First Release)
• [ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/mimic/packs/mimic50.zip Mimic #50] (Milestone 50th Release)
• [ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/mimic/packs/mimic84.zip Mimic #84] (Latest Release)

External links

• Mimic ASCII website
• The ARTS Radio (MP3
  MP3
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  ) contains an interview
  Interview
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  with Black Jack, the leader of Mimic ASCII.
• Mimic ASCII deviantART site - For prints of Mimic art
• [ftp://ftp.mimic.ca/pub/mimic/packs/ Mimic ASCII FTP archive] - Complete collection of Mimic artpacks