Newskool
The bright, high-resolution ASCII style that emerged in the late 1990s as a deliberate reaction against oldskool.
Where oldskool ANSI was built on the DOS text mode's block graphics and 16 colours, newskool took a different tack: higher resolution, Amiga-influenced and vividly coloured pieces, often in small fonts with a comic-book or graffiti feel.
The style went hand in hand with the art groups' monthly packs and with the move from BBSes to the internet as the distribution channel around 1996–2000. The oldskool-versus-newskool debate was as much identity as aesthetics — older sceners saw sloppy technique, younger ones saw freedom from the text grid. Both styles survive in today's ASCII and ANSI art groups.