Vietnamese teletext character set made by Colin Hinson at Europe Technologies. This seems to have been for the first Vietnamese teletext service, Vitek, in 2004. The photo was taken before all the characters were finished.
The Vietnamese script needs at least 134 additional letters to ASCII, which has lead to solutions like VISCII and VSCII in the past. Hinson describes the process in detail here, but it seems like they simply removed enough characters to make it work. :-)
Peter Murphy
A study from 1934 on how kids used the typewriter, and how it changed the classrom. Source. h/t: Marcin Wichary, whose forthcoming book about keyboards might interest you.
Make your HTML a bit more friendly for the peepers. “Copy & paste ASCII art welcome mats for your HTML” from welcomemat.co.
Roger Coqart works, 1982-2010. The diptychs are photos and computer prints, the others were painted by hand. The first photo of him is from 1983, and the one at the bottom is from 2010. He works in Brussels.
(thx to Prosthetic Knowledge)
Emoticons from 1893, published in the German Kreisblatt für den Kreis Malmedy. h/t Gleb Albert.
Typewriter Mystery Games by Julius Nelson (1951). Thanks to Andrew Belsey for the tip.
Update: now available on archive.org
Japanese Cookie (1992), also known as Japanese Xmas.Cookie, Virus.DOS.Christmas.653, or just JapaneseCookie) is a variant of the Japanese Christmas DOS virus.
the unicode 7.0 standard has been released, and it adds a bunch of characters to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block (or “new emoji” according to some in the media)
but most of these “new” characters have been around for more than 15 years, as part of the webdings and wingdings 1-3 fonts! so if you have these fonts installed then you don’t have to wait until to play around with them until your chat app is updated — you can enjoy them using the glitch text generator!
for example, the much-talked-about “no piracy” character is “#” in webdings.
