Answer:
ASCII is the acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is used to determine which character to display whan a keyboard key is pressed, or code entered.
e.g. The ascii code for the letter "a" is #97 which is binary 1100001
Most people think its like this:
....../ `---___________ _____|] ......
...../_==o;;;;;;;;__ _____.:/
.....), ---.(_(__) /
....// (..) ), ----"
...//___//
..//___//
That's not ascii, That's ascii art. i think this is what you meant.