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

Tweets by Haruko Hirukawa, 2013.

Make your own text-mode tweets with 15by7 by Matt Round.
Thanks to Glafouk for the tip.

Twitter Text Art Car Commercial

prostheticknowledge:

A Twitter profile from Smart Argentina (@smartArg) features all the frames to a text art animation, a car commercial. I put this gif animation together to see what it looks like - the idea being that you press / hold the ‘j’ button on your keyboard to automatically jump to the next tweet in succession. 

You can try it out for yourself here 

PS - I tried to get this to upload as a photo post (the image easily fits the limits, yet wouldn’t upload - no idea why …)