Eighteen Types by Andrew Hurle. Photos of Tokyo bar girls converted to ASCII, and mangled. See the full collection on the artist’s website.
Each of these two women are represented as an ASCII image set in nine different typefaces and has been magnified from an image captured from the computer screen.
Perhaps this was made around the same time as his other ASCII-related works, ca 2000. This post was updated in 2024.
3615 Ulla was a Minitel microserver for dating and chatting, part of the so-called pink Minitel. It was one of the most popular Minitel services.
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By Charles R Cannoni. Made in the 1930s and 40s. The men are Julius Nelson (his teacher in art typing) and Clark Gable (including his autograph).
More examples here.
JSL is a Dutch demoscener who’s made plenty of x-rated PETSCII animations in C-64 BASIC. His teenage style is strangely refreshing. Sometimes. More of his work at girls.c64.org.
Nude by Ken Knowlton and Leon Harmon, 1966. Contrary to popular belief, it does not use ASCII characters but various pictograms. In 1967 the image was printed in The New York Times, and then later exhibited at one of the earliest computer art exhibitions, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, held Museum of Modern Art in New York City in 1968.
More here
Teletext Babez by drx (Dragan Espenschied) was broadcasted for the first time on October 6th 2001 on P.A.R.K. 4DTV Amsterdam. More babez here.
Post updated in 2024.
