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, 2010sTumblr (3.0; @text-mode)http://text-mode.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a8b3f0749e009c7804ba42b461766aa1/tumblr_mo1tss45r41rpiyaso6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a080905c578eed63a3947f3aeecbc500/tumblr_mo1tss45r41rpiyaso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b4ac3a04febd256e2121d63e7616fc57/tumblr_mo1tss45r41rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6942daf12afb2a9dd5aa0d43508a2fa8/tumblr_mo1tss45r41rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5865e56ae184f49402f30eee9edfa8ac/tumblr_mo1tss45r41rpiyaso2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>By Jaebum Joo. More <a href="http://joojaebum.blogspot.se/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://gallery.thecreatorsproject.com/joojaebum" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53349553422http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53349553422Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:01:47 +0200pixel art2010ssouth korea<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/858c49957c18016ae781ee127bd33463/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/335841681fa25eea6b5adb8bbc24e426/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5392129cc24bd18e34d5fe4d5c0740cf/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/f08fc26d1713eb6a505bb680aaf9dccc/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/39a01c153f68ec2681bc2bc0241f393e/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/39c58afd9976499bcae93bf814579df3/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e46f912685956057672dcb99699f615b/tumblr_momph6GRJj1rpiyaso6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Printed log-in screens from Phantasmal Alchemy, an Atari BBS in the mid 1980s. <span>Made in Atari’s own ascii-standard ATASCII. </span></p> <blockquote> <p>The BBS started rather humbly, but eventually grew to encompass a large assortment of 8-bit hardware, including two 20MB hard drives.  Which, for Atari 8-bit stuff was pretty much infinite storage back then. :) The BBS was quite popular in Southeastern Connecticut, and I met many people through the BBS that I am still friends with to this day. </p> </blockquote> <p>More <a href="http://atariage.com/forums/topic/82649-phantasmal-alchemy-bbs-atascii-intro-screens/" target="_blank">here</a>. Spotted by <a href="https://twitter.com/vectorbunny" target="_blank">@vectorbunny</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53344101957http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53344101957Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:15:00 +02001980satariatasciibbsprintusa<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5634cc8fe1605b83f544bf60b971331a/tumblr_mj8hhrOj2I1r87ofro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ANSI by LnS <a href="http://www.defacto2.net/file/detail/ab30c6/ruff-rider-bbs/-/-/date" target="_blank">in 1992</a>. Ruff Rider was a quite famous American BBS back in the days, it seems.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53268039433http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53268039433Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:01:50 +0200ansibbselite1990s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ab082199acf08c5a41af7a663ca81900/tumblr_mf07xicljX1qhgebno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://functionaltransformation.tumblr.com/post/37889225227/ascii-portrait-of-ulrike-meinhof-done-on-a">functionaltransformation</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>ascii portrait of ulrike meinhof done on a typewriter, by garret miller</p> </blockquote>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53186072182http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53186072182Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:01:31 +0200typewriter2010s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/50ccf49395d7530ddb3d2d6215c776c3/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f9495e1d2731cb86cd85865b35a40fb4/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fbb011d75896daa68f4a94c1ee01dffd/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/766b893e9b8617376235604c83eafe01/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c82288d16032f2f79c17e3b6a203750c/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6946c004ca319d082bba5906fec5bf7c/tumblr_mnsavinB0s1rpiyaso6_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Embroidered text messages, received 02/06 - 04/07. By Ginger Anyhow. More <a href="http://gingeranyhow.com/projects/textmessageembroidery/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53096214359http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53096214359Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:01:36 +0200smsembroidery2000scross stitch<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/34d2a9079b86def31e66769817add49b/tumblr_mns9gvtGC21rpiyaso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec66c076d44c3ba6b067f7fcff430046/tumblr_mns9gvtGC21rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c6af64be3c8cf6464407f4d39115294e/tumblr_mns9gvtGC21rpiyaso2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9d930746c9d6628040860bb9b71b7694/tumblr_mns9gvtGC21rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>By <a href="http://www.marwaboukarim.com/51021/1239303/projects/collecting-communication-communicating-collection" target="_blank">Marwa Boukarim</a>, 2009. </p> <blockquote> <p>This book deals with the overwhelming accumulation of correspondences in a digital age. Its goal is to make sense of my huge collection of letters, text messages, Facebook messages, emails, and chats by organizing them and finding new ways of visually representing the data at hand.</p> </blockquote>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53014878016http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/53014878016Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:01:31 +0200textart2000slebanonprint<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/627b9d3e74f0eee609e5d9c77d0e59f2/tumblr_moe1j8WvBF1rpiyaso3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/62e1f815bba3e88442c11f728abe0e8a/tumblr_moe1j8WvBF1rpiyaso2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7690555a09b0a18ddc400674ae141d71/tumblr_moe1j8WvBF1rpiyaso1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Make your HTML a bit more friendly for the peepers. <span>“Copy & paste ASCII art welcome mats for your HTML” from </span><span></span><a href="http://welcomemat.co/" target="_blank">welcomemat.co</a><span>.</span></p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52948982163http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52948982163Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:57:08 +02002010shtmlascii<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/09be386ac67a1c883291e54d4f538a68/tumblr_mns8f8CPaM1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a32f4a85140864c3f308eed138e5e899/tumblr_mns8f8CPaM1rpiyaso2_250.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>SMS graphics from 2001, <a href="http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/2004/09/005425.htm" target="_blank">from textually.org</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52937851496http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52937851496Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:01:00 +0200smsarabic2000spixel art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3fec0ecfbaeb46951588380e27f10b9a/tumblr_mnghpbiR7C1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>We interrupt your scrolling with an important message. These are the different standards for <a href="http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/videotex" target="_blank">videotex</a>, a protocol somewhere inbetween teletext and internet.</p> <p>It wasn’t all pure text-mode. Videotex also had vector graphics and the ability to change fonts, and plenty more things. <a href="http://text-mode.tumblr.com/tagged/telidon" target="_blank">Telidon</a> was perhaps the most widely used videotex standard, or so it seems today.</p> <p>Not sure if they ever got around to a world standard, like they did with teletext (which was a techno-battle between France and the UK).</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52936041614http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52936041614Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:56:13 +0200videotex<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/35d2026e85e8a00d8604de03c54c0b35/tumblr_mocmy3OO6a1rpiyaso1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>By Edward Snowden, 1998. Leaked PETSCII art work.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52892878290http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52892878290Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:53:16 +0200petsciianimationcopyright<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/31862d8703582a4bf3a9479e7f576fb1/tumblr_moc5lit9YG1rpiyaso2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/397c4a3a0ba377103fe072381039dce6/tumblr_moc5lit9YG1rpiyaso1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://www.cyrk.org/" target="_blank">Cyrk.org</a> has a logo made completely in text, so you can select it and do this. All night long.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52868853194http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52868853194Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:32:55 +0200textmode2010slogotype<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d7f98c3378181489b15ef0819a970e89/tumblr_mns5hjcN4J1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ASCII in the news! Cover art for <a href="http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/cracking-oaklands-code/Content?oid=3426694" target="_blank">this article</a> in the the weekly East Bay Express, January 2013. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/varius/8343038968/lightbox/" target="_blank">Photo by varius</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52858998920http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52858998920Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:01:56 +02002010sprintmagazine<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b7041a739dae7b1dc8936fd633a385a1/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/33d8a010e2813b79a834139557f8cb56/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a3a8aec39f0429d1dca6862b10b8faba/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso5_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/58f99d141b0529b5ebfc37b008122253/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso4_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/043ece35d74a9dd2cec43f4df923eeca/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso6_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b1da2e13277951775f8fc1dc85768bac/tumblr_mnrizve1Qp1rpiyaso3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Ancient patterns, mostly from Peru. <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17730/17730-h/17730-h.htm" target="_blank">via</a></p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52780591347http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52780591347Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:02:05 +0200ancientperutextile<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/60f59d6240bdca429f1d00389e3dec74/tumblr_mkbpqrfJUV1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Rödbroka”  designed by <a href="http://www.mmf.se/html_en/historik/amf.htm" target="_blank">Ann-Mari Forsberg</a> in 1944.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52698881445http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52698881445Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200textilerug1940s<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/81f33549ed5521d71e2d0c2d6a64ba70/tumblr_ml5tjsntAi1rpiyaso1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hot typewriter setup by Ryu Hankil, here together with stuff from Choi Joonyong and Hong Chulki. Thanks to <a href="http://www.heavyside.net/" target="_blank">Jamie Allen</a> for the heads up. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/ryu+hankil,+choi+joonyong,+hong+chulki/+images/74595044" target="_blank">via</a></p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52617740794http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52617740794Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:01:10 +0200typewriterperformance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/707e51e0df01581428596b18940b1c87/tumblr_mnr8urNGtV1rpiyaso3_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1436a8e75b078f978c90bcf272a8baf8/tumblr_mnr8urNGtV1rpiyaso2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/08aea0cc95ce9cbde666a65a707e9653/tumblr_mnr8urNGtV1rpiyaso1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>SBC Text from the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, photographed off screen by Bryan Green in 1991, <a href="http://teletext.mb21.co.uk/gallery/world/singapore/" target="_blank">via</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52617526088http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52617526088Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:53:00 +02001990steletextsingapore<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3db9db584af80f2f179b6ad41f92dd61/tumblr_mo0jd0AayK1rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ba77217858732309af364cb06b85e700/tumblr_mo0jd0AayK1rpiyaso2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/af9cfb01bcc5725ad84d441d6a00982b/tumblr_mo0jd0AayK1rpiyaso1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>There is a sceptre haunting USA…</p> <p>The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983), <a href="http://sonicalkaline.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-viewtron-system-and-sceptre-videotex-terminal-1983/" target="_blank">via</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52532800723http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52532800723Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:01:20 +0200Viewtronvideotex1980sSceptre Videotex TerminalAT&T<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c2215a90288a038633979bbb6990ab7/tumblr_mo34tbUjDO1rpiyaso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e9c1d49c587d31588ea33331da79954f/tumblr_mo34tbUjDO1rpiyaso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7976f1ce67f6bfd035dc41e71b74a763/tumblr_mo34tbUjDO1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d45ccec3242ca920d6a6ae691b84a5e5/tumblr_mo34tbUjDO1rpiyaso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4f525f8ccd88d13c10e5e19ab61bf841/tumblr_mo34tbUjDO1rpiyaso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Hand-knitted works by <a href="http://www.wheresmejumper.co.uk/" target="_blank">Where’s Me Jumper</a>, priced from £300. Mjölk means milk.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52473421423http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52473421423Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:34:00 +0200knittingteletext2010stextile<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f6e1503708e10de50a77f3f23f757bf0/tumblr_mo32wgPdHH1rpiyaso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>By RΛHEEM WΛLΛ, from <a href="http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/detail/463843905931287677_3224326" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52470681944http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52470681944Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:53:04 +0200circuits2010selectronics<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/65c1f690fee3bf1590fc131abf9e50d4/tumblr_mn9m8gXC0t1rpiyaso3_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/887bb6c0ca0fa47c27dfc1779e87b232/tumblr_mn9m8gXC0t1rpiyaso1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8fc064ce35664ef9909ef1c14bbd175c/tumblr_mn9m8gXC0t1rpiyaso2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><p>Foot fetish ASCII - the next big thing? Found at GorGoromles Dungeon (<a href="http://gorgoromles.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">NSFW</a>).</p>http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52450688464http://text-mode.tumblr.com/post/52450688464Sat, 08 Jun 2013 12:01:14 +0200asciiconversion2010sχχχ