No promises, but who knows," You can try the ASCII art generator online ... between print jobs It would later be used in emails and text messages before it became possible to embed or send ...

[Emily] started work on the art generator. The concept is something that might have been sold on late-night TV ads: a “cartridge” you plug into your printer to make ASCII masterpieces.

As cool and useful as that is, images can’t be pasted into text fields. That’s where asciiwave comes in. It reads the exact same format that WaveDrom uses, but generates an ASCII-art timing ...