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
HAL3100, an electronic RTTY terminal from ca 1980. These machines are sometimes called RATTs. According to Wikipedia, the primary users of RTTY today are diplomats and miliatires, since it is such a robust technology. Let’s hope they still use this HAL-model!

HAL3100, an electronic RTTY terminal from ca 1980. These machines are sometimes called RATTs. According to Wikipedia, the primary users of RTTY today are diplomats and miliatires, since it is such a robust technology. Let’s hope they still use this HAL-model!

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