1. They discovered that if you filled the screen with certain characters and squinted you could sort of make out a picture. Thus ASCII art was born.
2. The ASCII cam application lets you view the world as ASCII art using the camera on an Android device.
3. All they could do was show green characters on a black screen or black characters on white paper.
4. It's just the thing for Android owners suffering iPhone envy: a photography application that's even more retro than Hipstamatic.
5. Characters are displayed as green-on-black, white-on-black, or, for that line printer look, as dark-grey-on-white.
6. Short of simulating clay tablets or papyrus, this is as old-school as it gets.
7. This is the free version that doesn't support the taking of photos.
8. A long time ago computers didn't have graphics.
9. But programmers were resourceful.
10. If you want that feature, you'll need to upgrade to the paid version.
1. This is the trail, so buy the full version of you want the photos.
2. "does not take photos" is buried in the about section of this app.
3. You can only bring the settings menu up once.
4. To bring it up again you have to close and reopen the app.