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ANSI Art
Terminology | Dictionary | Explanation
 As computer technology developed, monitors were available that could display color. Eventually, text artists began incorporating this new level of flexibility to the existing medium of ascii art by adding color to their text-based art, or animating their art by manipulating the cursor control codes. Quite simply, this is what is commonly referred to today as ANSI art.
The majority of the early created ANSI art in the IBM PC artscene were distributed as coded executables called loaders or intros/cracktro's rather than raw bitmap images. A crack intro, also known as a cracktro, loader, or just intro, is a small introduction sequence added to cracked software, designed to inform the user which releasegroup or individual cracker was responsible for removing the software's copy prevention and distributing the crack.
 Cracking groups would use the intros not just to gain credit for
cracking, but to advertise their bulletin boards, greet friends, and to give
themselves recognition.
The picture at the right are examples of cracktro's/loaders
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