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It’s been discovered that Facebook have a cool secret feature where it will create ASCII art from any of your public photos.
This only works with public photos, so a good example to try this with is your profile picture as these photos are always public.
Browse to your photo albums, look in your “Profile Pictures” album, choose a photo then use the right-click menu to grab the image url, which will look something like this:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg
Add “.html” on to the end of this url to see the full colour ascii rendering of this photo:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg.html
Or add “.txt” to the url to get the black and white version:
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtl1/t31.0-8/11856255_10155869982660632_3455759563649364074_o.jpg.txt
I’m not quite sure why Facebook are doing this, I can’t imagine any practical use so I think it must just be a cool feature for people who are interested in digging deeper into the way Facebook works.