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
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Yeah, humans need to step up their game. (via writing-system)

Yeah, humans need to step up their game. (via writing-system)

#unicode      #code      #typography      #2010s      #font     

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This book is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) and the whole book revolves around this C64 BASIC program. It outputs / and \ randomly, to form a maze. Read the book online as a free PDF or buy it and support good ol’ Playpower. Picture copied from Creative Applications. Too lazy to photo the one lying here on the table.

This book is called 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 (MIT Press) and the whole book revolves around this C64 BASIC program. It outputs / and \ randomly, to form a maze. Read the book online as a free PDF or buy it and support good ol’ Playpower.

Picture copied from Creative Applications. Too lazy to photo the one lying here on the table.

#petscii      #2010s      #print      #book      #code     

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ASCII Art Signatures In The Wild or: How I Downloaded The Internet And Learned How Much One Million Is, Victor Widell (2012)

A script that scans ASCII art signature in HTML comments in download sites from the Alexa one-million top domains list.

#ascii      #code      #2010s