By Ujjwal Mishra,CSE 3rd Year
Social networking sites like Facebook and Instagram are a child’s play today and each and everyone is acquainted with it. Posting selfies and other pics on these social networking sites have became a daily routine of the people nowadays.But have you ever have thought that your pics have an hidden ASCII version…yes you read it right, they do have an ASCII version which is concealed.
For those who don’t know what the thing is ASCII is I must tell you that as your computer understands only numbers, so an ASCII code is a numerical representation of characters such as ‘a’ or ‘@’ or an action of some sort. Hope this might be enough for you to get acquainted with this article.
The question arises that how can you see these hidden ASCII version of your fb or insta pics.To do so follow the following steps:-
2. Append ‘.html’ to the URL to get a colored ASCII art.
Instagram or Facebook:
So what are you waiting for …..go and just give it a try and hope it would be interesting.
For those who don’t know what the thing is ASCII is I must tell you that as your computer understands only numbers, so an ASCII code is a numerical representation of characters such as ‘a’ or ‘@’ or an action of some sort. Hope this might be enough for you to get acquainted with this article.
The question arises that how can you see these hidden ASCII version of your fb or insta pics.To do so follow the following steps:-
- Take any Facebook/Instagram photo URL.
- Append ‘.txt’ to the URL to get a black and white ASCII coded pic.
2. Append ‘.html’ to the URL to get a colored ASCII art.
Instagram or Facebook:
- In your Chrome web browser go to View->Developer->View Source.
- Search for “.jpg”
- Copy/paste your URL as you find them.
- Add .html to the end of the URL.
So what are you waiting for …..go and just give it a try and hope it would be interesting.