Screengrabs from ITV Nightscreen, 1998, courtesy TVAjb on YouTube. See here for the source vid, complete with music.
キター by よぴ (2011)
Elemental Canyon, via.
New York Public Library is experimenting with PETSCII to generate covers for books that don’t have one. Each letter in the title of the book is replaced by a corresponding PETSCII-character in one of its two character sets. So A become ▲ and F becomes ▂ and so on.
“Keyboard graphics” by Quicksilver (Bryce L Tomlinson), 1987. Examples that came with his PETSCII-editor Kaleidoscope 2.0.
Three kinds of lines and all their combinations by Sol LeWitt (1973).
A piece of code shaped like a donut renders a spinning donut in ASCII. Made by Andy Sloane:
via prostheticknowledge (with more explanations and links)
More code calligrams here.
χχχ teletext from the German TV channel VOX.
Gif snippet of Petscii Intro by Atlantis & F4CG, 2014. h/t: 4mat
By Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, based in Stockholm. Hot grids!
C64 PETSCII by Worrior1, 2023.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt – Tri Colore
Teletext, though developed in the 1970s didn’t catch on until 1980’s. A great source of information and cheap holiday deals beamed directly to your television set, in the 1980’s was a novelty. In 2009 teletext came off air, the reason for it’s demise? The Internet.
Stickle Bricks are a construction toy primarily intended for toddlers invented by Denys Fisher in 1969.
Seiichi Niikuni & Pierre Garnier: Pik bou Ozieux 1, 1966 (?).
“Microsoft has jumped onto the free-to-play bandwagon with its latest game, a text-driven adventure called Visual Studio 2010”. Now that’s just great.
