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

Visual textmode identity for Pickles PR by Part of a Bigger Plan. Check out the smoo00th transitions on their website.

Kind of similar to Siggi Eggertsson

ASCII art spam from 2012.
Not married?The most beautiful girlsClickvia

ASCII art spam from 2012.

Not married?
The most beautiful girls
Click

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ASCII art spam, 2005-2011. From here, here, here, here, here and here.

Pin for Elvis Costello’s 1983-album Punch the Clock. Thanks to Brian Cassidy for the tip.

Pin for Elvis Costello’s 1983-album Punch the Clock. Thanks to Brian Cassidy for the tip.

oooooO!

oooooO!

Text-tv face from the swedish TV channel Sjuan.

Text-tv face from the swedish TV channel Sjuan.

From the German TV channel RTL.

More χχχ videotext faces from the German TV.

How about that tan? Videotext from the German TV channel RTL.

Oma means grandmother.

Videotext from the German TV channel Viva.

χχχ videotext from the German TV channel VOX.

kinky χχχ videotext from the German TV.

χχχ videotext from the german TV channel ProSieben.

χχχ videotext from the German TV channel Kabel eins.

On teletext, the male body doesn’t stand much chance to the female one…

Taken from the German TV channel Sat1.