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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Trouble Channel 1999, via

Trouble Channel 1999, via

#teletext      #1990s     

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‘Family Channel’ teletext in the 90s, via

#teletext      #1990s     

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TELETEXT GALLERY BBC CEEFAX, via

#teletext      #ceefax      #bbc     

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Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom.

Bamboozle! was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom.

#teletext      #quiz      #2000s     

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“Internet Killed the Teletext” T-shirt by thomashy2000

“Internet Killed the Teletext” T-shirt by thomashy2000

#teletext      #clothes      #textile     

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Teletext pages made by the students in the workhop “Pixelarium (Computational Design)” at Merz Akademie Sommersemester 2013.

#teletext      #merz      #2010s     
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Datagården is most likely the first installation in the world to use a custom teletext signal. It features video input, video feedback and Twitter-feeds along with custom-made graphics/text/software and C64-music. Made by Raquel Meyers, Possan and Goto80. Interface developed by Peter Kwan.

Project showed at Art Hack Day “Larger than life / Loggen över ditt liv”, the 13th of April 2013 at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.

#teletext      #text-tv      #art hack day      #2010s     

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The Teletext Babez video, with χχχ teletext pages from german cable TV collected by Dragan Espenschied and χχχ tune by Bodenständig 2000. It was broadcasted for the first time on October 6th 2001 on P.A.R.K. 4DTV Amsterdam.

#teletext      #2000s      #Teletext Babez      #video      #χχχ     
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Microtel was broadcasting on Nederlands 1, 2 & 3 NOS Teletext pages 450 - 455 during 26 January till 5 February in 2006. Project by Emma Davidson [Lektrogirl] and Paul B. Davis from Lektrolab as part of VBI [voluptuously blinking eye], read more here and watch all the submissions here.

#teletext      #2000s      #microtel     

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Streamed video on teletext. World first! By Possan, together with us at Art Hack Day. If you’re in Stockholm tomorrow come check it out!

Streamed video on teletext. World first! By Possan, together with us at Art Hack Day. If you’re in Stockholm tomorrow come check it out!

#teletext      #animation      #2010s     

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Cartoon Network (animation TV channel) teletext, via

#teletext      #1990s     

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Work in progress for Art Hack Day —- Larger than life / Loggen över ditt liv —- (11th-13th april, Stockholm). A Teletext installation for people who have passed on. A sacred place for them to be celebrated, in text-mode, way above The Cloud. By Goto80 & Raquel Meyers.

Work in progress for Art Hack Day —- Larger than life / Loggen över ditt liv —- (11th-13th april, Stockholm). A Teletext installation for people who have passed on. A sacred place for them to be celebrated, in text-mode, way above The Cloud. By Goto80 & Raquel Meyers.

#teletext      #2010s     

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How to be Celtic. (via teletextart)

#teletext      #celtic     

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Fox Kids (UK) Children’s TV Channel (1996-2005) Teletext, via

#teletext      #2000s      #1990s     

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GOD channel, 2001, via

#god      #teletext      #2000s