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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NES Knitting machine. Promotional flyer from Howard Phillips, who worked for Nintendo from 1981 to 1991.
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Self portrait by Enso, 2013 (via m7kenji)

Self portrait by Enso, 2013 (via m7kenji)

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New NES music software released today: Super Magic Music Maker by Neil Baldwin. This is a generative tool that runs on the actual NES, and you can interact with both visuals and music. Or just lean back and obey the machine!
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New NES music software released today: Super Magic Music Maker by Neil Baldwin. This is a generative tool that runs on the actual NES, and you can interact with both visuals and music. Or just lean back and obey the machine!

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partytimehexcellent:

びしょうじょノーショー/BAD CHECKSUM, running in an NES emulator (PT!H!)

partytimehexcellent:

びしょうじょノーショー/BAD CHECKSUM, running in an NES emulator (PT!H!)