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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This guy was sucked into teletext when he was looking for hockey results in 1993. Now he is trying to communicate with his children, who are grown up by now. By Joonas Rinta-Kanto, as part of his fok_it comic.

This appeared on Finnish teletext yesterday. If you’re TV is not cool enough for YLE, you can watch the pages online here. Press the alasivu buttons to change subpages.

(via Aleksi Eeben)