C64 PETSCII graphics by Uka / G*P.
Ambulance or Ambulance Car virus (Germany, 1990).
When an infected file is executed, an ASCII ambulance can be seen moving across the screen and a siren start to sound displaying a alert message like : BOOM!. Ambulance is not a destructive virus; it simply spreads itself around and shows off its payload once in a while.
Dusk [2013] by wile coyote
Hellbeard said I’m currently in a flow… My girl and me are binge watching fringe and I’m painting #ascii. We couldn’t travel around this time but anyway… these holidays are #awesome ! #Amiga #asciiart a day keeps doctor away! #Buddhist #temple as a part of the new big thing coming soon :-) // #textmode #ansi #tibetian
Amiga ASCII by Hellbeard, 2014. Taken from New Horizons (for Impure 1940) and To build a fire (and keep it going) (for Divine Stylers).
Teletext page 420 on the Bosnian TV-channel Hayat.
An experiment showing Helvetica rendered in PETSCII characters. Moving the base image reveals clearer ways of rendering each glyph.
The rectangles in “Punch Card Park” in Ohio were made to resemble the square holes in IBM cards. Created in 2004 as part of the celebration of the bicentennial of the founding of Ohio University
‘Fax for Folket’ the book!
66 pages in paperback with works of raquel meyers, goto80, Dan Brännvall and +++.
Buy it here for only 15$.
Digitiser, a British teletext magazine, 1993-2003. It used surreal language, strange humour, fake advertising and made fun of contributors. There is a video of this issue here. Super Page 58 has saved some of the texts. Wikipedia has more information. Pictures from gearforgold & luizalfonso.
Scott E Fahlman suggests a use of :) and :( in September, 1982. This happened on a bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. It caught on pretty fast, and in November there were already several variations.
There are many older examples of emoticons, but this is likely what popularized emoticons as we know them today.
Zapotec embroidery from Mexico, photographed by Karen Elwell.
Neanderthal by Shaun Berke, 2012. “An archetype print with the A-C-G-T of the nucleo-base, sequenced by the Human Genome Project.”
By test : 2012-06-18 11:34