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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Prestel, cover from 1982

Prestel, cover from 1982

#advertising      #prestel      #videotex      #viewdata      #1980s     

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Prestel capture screens

#prestel      #videotex      #viewdata     

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Prestel / Viewdata (1979)

Prestel / Viewdata (1979)

#advertising      #prestel      #videotex      #viewdata      #teletext      #1970s     
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Prestel, screengrabs from 1984
Here you can view the graphics as text.

#Prestel      #teletext      #viewdata      #1980s     
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Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office’s Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979.
Terminal/demonstration at the National Museum of Science & Industry

#prestel      #videotex      #viewdata      #1970s     

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A Christmas Carol, the Charles Dickens classic in viewdata graphics (Prestel) made by Dr David Annal, RIP. Check it here!

#prestel      #viewdata      #videotex     

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An eerie ad for Prestel, which was a videotex service in the UK. A bit like interactive teletext via modem.

#advertising      #videotex      #1970s      #1980s      #prestel