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2024-01-29

2010s, 2014, advertising, calligram, code, usa.

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The source code for the Braintree Payments website in 2014/2015 contained URLs in the shape of ASCII art. The URLs led to ASCII-inspired games, made by Unit9. Video.

More Braintree ASCII-stuff here and here and here.

2024-01-16

1930s, 1935, advertising, print, usa.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, composed of 17,000 monotype characters and a tinted background in the shape of the head (1935). source

2020-07-03

2000s, 2001, advertising, teletext, uk.

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Nokia ringtones teletext ads from 2001, recovered by the teletext archeologist.

2019-06-17

2010s, 2019, advertising, print, turkey.

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Big ASCII print in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo by James Athurman.

2018-03-27

1990s, 1996, advertising, animation, ansi, DOS, game, usa.

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Alive Software’s very pretty Summer 1996 catalog. From ALIVECAT.exe

2018-03-03

1800s, advertising, ascii, poetry, print, usa.

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Ads in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1873-1874 found by Paul Soulellis. ASCII advertising was quite popular at the time, and these are almost like concrete poetry advertising?

2018-02-07

1980s, 1986, advertising, ascii.

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From Computerworld, January 1986.

2016-05-28

1800s, advertising, newspaper, usa.

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In the 1870′s, Brooklyn Furniture Company spent more on ads than any other furniture company. And they did plenty of text graphics!

More in this ASCII-detective story.

2016-05-27

advertising, ascii, japan, shiftjis.

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Calbee launched a new snack in April with ASCII art on the cover. Promoted with absurd videos like this, about sending W’s to the world and make them happy? More here.

2016-01-18

1980s, 1986, 1987, advertising, oracle, teletext, uk.

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Music ads for Grace Jones and The Pogues on Oracle teletext 1986/87, via Teletext Art.