Does anyone know..
 

what it is called when words are displayed like this...?

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3218/logoibmdf4.jpg

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...hCdnbMc5-KU1sn

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pictionary ?


seriously...

A pictograph, also called pictogram(me), is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Pictographs are often used in writing and graphic systems in which the characters are to considerable extent pictorial in appearance.

Pictography is a form of writing which uses representational, pictorial drawings. It is a basis of cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which uses drawings also as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes.

It was pretty much the first written form of language.

hieroglyphics?1/!?!?!