A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
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The earliest preserved example of typewriter art was made in 1898 by a woman named Flora Stacey. Her framed picture of a butterfly was published in the October 15th, 1898, edition of Pitman’s Phonetic Journal.

The earliest preserved example of typewriter art was made in 1898 by a woman named Flora Stacey. Her framed picture of a butterfly was published in the October 15th, 1898, edition of Pitman’s Phonetic Journal.

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