[carra]

Indeed it seems I was not well informed. Back in the 90s I did see several pieces of ANSI art, but even then the people and magazines I knew always called all of it ASCII art. In fact I don't think I had heard the term ANSI art before today.

I guess this may similar to how we usually call all tracker music "MODs", though in fact there are MOD, XM, S3M, IT...

[pelasaco]

ASCII art was for, me, what they used in Phrack and other zines, and ANSI was this blocky colorful, used in many warez and bbs.. like the telecomics..