What R Those Pictures Called Made From Text

have u ever seen those pictures ppl making using symbols and letters, heres an example:
/´¯/)
,/¯ /
/ /
/´¯`/' '/´¯¯`·¸
/'/ / / /¨ /¯\
('( ´ ´ ¯˜/' ')
\ ' /
'\' \ _.·´
\ (
does any1 no what there called?
edit: lol looks like it wont work here! :ooops:

ASCII

Crap :P

lol, thnx

http://www.textfiles.com/art

http://www.arkworld.com/ascii/wb/warner1.htm

Here's an animated ASCII picture.

http://abstract.cs.washington.edu/~renacer....html.gz?D0=100

;) It's called ASCII Art. You see this stuff in those .nfo files for cracks and warez that shows a picture of like the warez groups logo or something. :huh:

I thought they were called Macros