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
Portrait of Hiroyuki Nishimura by Christoph Niemann. Hiroyuki is the founder of the textboard 2channel (1999) where many Japanese Shift_JIS memes come from. It seems to have an even broader popularity than its English-speaking off-spring 4chan (2003).

Portrait of Hiroyuki Nishimura by Christoph Niemann. Hiroyuki is the founder of the textboard 2channel (1999) where many Japanese Shift_JIS memes come from. It seems to have an even broader popularity than its English-speaking off-spring 4chan (2003).

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