ANSI art is a computer art form that was widely used at one time on bulletin board systems. Similar to ASCII art, it is constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols — all codes found in IBM code page 437, often referred to as extended ASCII and used in MS-DOS and Unix environments.
ANSI Menus are the heart and soul of any BBS System and help to create a theme or environment for its users. Over 60 Custom ANSIs were used in the development of The ROCK bbs! Most of these were created for The ROCK by professional ANSI artist Luciano Ayers of BlockTronics.