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 ...
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Mitla, Mexico. The most important site of the Zapotec people, and later the Mixtecs. Each unit of the mosaic is a separate stone, and they are held together only by the weight of the surrounding stones. 

Mitla was inhabited apx 2000 years ago. The European invaders fucked it up, of course. 

#ancient      #mosaic      #architecture     
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