The Asciivision web project was created for an assignment in my "Remedial Introduction to HTML" class at school. At this point in the quarter, we hadn't been taught such advanced concepts as using graphics on web sites, so our ourput was rather lacking, in terms of aesthetics. For this particular assignment, we were expressly forbidden from using images, since that entire img src= thing was still beyond us.
As a kind of protest or something, I tried to figure out a way to be a jerk and mess with the criteria a little bit. I fiddled with styles for a little while and eventually came up with Asciivision, which allows remarkably vivid pictures to be formed using simple ascii text. Basically, the trick was to use styles to print the letters really, really small and really closely together. The resulting images are pretty cool - like a dot matrix printout or something. If you really want to impress your buddies, you can do a drag select on some portion of the text in the images. I've gotten a ton of chicks this way.
Also, it's interesting to note that the images are all compressed to some degree, in terms of file size.
The actual Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story is completely useless and incomplete. All I was trying to do is come up with a vehicle to contain my ascii pictures. Also, this site requires a font which seems to be fairly prevalent on Windows machines, but may be less so on other systems. Your mileage may vary. Finally, please ignore the opening warning. It is a joke, kind of.
Also, I should mention that the idea of a web-based Choose Your Own Adventure story has interesting implications to me. For one thing, the concept of page numbers is completely useless since it is impossible to gauge the total length of the "book". I use page numbers in this site, but I concede that they are completely useless to the reader. Also, I wonder if the entertainment value of a web-based story of this type is reduced since there's no readily available means of cheating, or finding a good ending and working backwards.
Less talk, more rock.