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
Hey, who will be our 1911th follower? 
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Hey, who will be our 1911th follower?

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By fishzy123.

By fishzy123.

Detail from an ANSI by King Midas / ACiD, 1996.

Detail from an ANSI by King Midas / ACiD, 1996.

 电脑讨论区一 BY Gatchaman (2011).

 电脑讨论区一 BY Gatchaman (2011).

Very particular ANSI-style from Jerusalem / Boil, 1998.

Ageema Blues by Avenger / Black Maiden, 2001. Ageema Blues (the netlabel) is still online and has plenty of good soul disco chip noise.

Ageema Blues by Avenger / Black Maiden, 2001. Ageema Blues (the netlabel) is still online and has plenty of good soul disco chip noise.

Tribute to Fractal, 2001. Made by Shrimp, a 16-year-old from Jerusalem.

Tribute to Fractal, 2001. Made by Shrimp, a 16-year-old from Jerusalem.

By T-Bob and Konami of MIMIC, early 2000s.

By T-Bob and Konami of MIMIC, early 2000s.

Two titans of the digital era finally appears side by side! DX-7 music and ANSI patterns generated together in DX-Heaven, by Daniel Iglesia 2009.

An ANSI game simply called Shoot’em, which uses sounds that sounds like old Amiga music, which is actually from another game, which has a 90’s website, which is good, which is nice.

 蛋糕 BY wengee (2011).

 蛋糕 BY wengee (2011).

Welcome to book 22 by ave & fastjack, 2001. For Black Maiden.

Welcome to book 22 by ave & fastjack, 2001. For Black Maiden.

squirrelmonkeyworld:

Bon Ross in text mode! The Joy of Painting

Thanks to prostheticknowledge for the tip.