pics in text

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  1. Gifted

    Gifted World Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    Some of you have probably seen the quizes and such I've found recently. The sites give a block of gibberish(to me, anyway, I know it's a language of some sort), and the computer knows to display certain graphics this way. How does this work? Knowing the code, can you program a picture, ir is it some sort of reference to the original site to say what to put?
     
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    Stryder Keeper of "good" ideas. Valued Senior Member

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    I'm not sure which site you refer to but if you aren't the only one to see code instead of an image (Like if you viewed a .bmp file with a notepad) then the likelihood is that the server that has the site has somehow got a corrupt HANDLER that is spouting the Graphics files out like Code rather than being interpreted properly.

    If it's just you, then are you using one of the Linux browsers?
     
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    Gifted World Wanderer Registered Senior Member

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    I'm just curious, that's all. If you look at my "Your ship" thread, afteer inserting the data it takes you to a site where you can get a block of text which, when pasted into a bblog or forum, makes the fancy chart thingy(edit: its in the sci-fi forum). I was just wondering how that works.
     
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