The problem is that URLs are created in ASCII code bits of 1s and 0s.

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He says there is an uppermost value of six valid ASCII permutations for the most complicated letter, fewer for the others.

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The ASCII text file that Veterans can download will include this information.

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Hit the source link below to see the modified Street View in action or head past the break for a video of the ASCII painting.

ENGADGET: Google Street View goes retro with unofficial ASCII treatment

Simply plug an address into his project's website and you'll be able to pan through an ASCII facsimile of a real-world Street View vista.

ENGADGET: Google Street View goes retro with unofficial ASCII treatment

The Russians had told Pacific Northwest that it was in ASCII.

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He said the software didn't work initially but only because the information that had to be decoded by the software was written in the Cyrillic alphabet, instead of ASCII.

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It's driven some to search Google through a Bulletin Board System-like interface or, in the case of programmer Peter Nitsch, it's compelled him to graft ASCII art onto the physical world.

ENGADGET: Google Street View goes retro with unofficial ASCII treatment

IBM, who first floated the idea last year, is now sharing some more details about its prototype device that, while only able to store 4Kb of data (roughly half the text of this post in ASCII), is said to be able to retain that for 10 years.

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