Casino virus (1991). The virus makes you play a game of jackpot for your data.

The Chinese site ansiart.org is back again after 2 years of silence with a post to celebrate the new monkey year.

Typewriter works by Frank Singleton, 2023.

By !jdnQRCO6nQ (2006).

More crashtxt

By Olly Moss, using graphics from the Game Boy versions of Zelda and Pokemon.

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The Bad Apple video running in teletext on the BBC Micro computer (which has a teletext graphics mode). Made by Bitshifters. Read more here.

Finnish teletext ad.

Grid 4 by Simon Parritt, 1975 or possibly 1971 (according to Igor Siddiqui in Slashed Interiors: Text/Space) or perhaps some other early 70’s year as suggested in Typewriter Art.

By Charles Verey, 1960s.

Character encoding on the www. Unicode became the most popular standard in 2008 and four years later 60% of all web pages indexed by Google used Unicode. Also interesting to note that Chinese encoding has been doing a sine wave since 2007.

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Unexpected Value by SanderFocus, 2022. Uses the PETSCII charset.

oase I by Ottar Ormstad, in bokstavteppekatalogen, 2011. This was made in Adobe InDesign, but he has also used more traditional concrete poetry methods since the 1960’s.

Post updated in 2024.


Sinclair ZX81 character set and font, via.

Typing portraits with a Monotype, 1939. Full clip here.

Yarr! [2014] by Redcrab

By Richard Winters (Pixel8or). Beatles, the Sound of Music and David Bowie as PETSCIIoid interpretations. 

Hagar the Horrible by Jan (?)

Animations from the game Stone Story, using ASCII and some additional characters.

h/t: iLKke