Ancient Web: TAAG Kept AOL Macro-Shop and FIGlet Fonts Alive

Patrick Gillespie's Text to ASCII Art Generator began in 2007 as a JavaScript side project inspired by late-1990s AOL Macro Shop art and grew into a long-lived FIGlet and ANSI-font preservation tool.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-05-09

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