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Russian SMS art from 2008. More here. If you know where to find more SMS graphics like this (for stupid phones) then pls let us know.

The Textile Cone is a venomous cone snail that can kill humans. Some people have called it the Textmode Killer of the Sea. Pic from Wikipedia.

Look, it’s a demoscene thing!

Небольшая демка (512 байт) для ПК “Вектор-06Ц” (2009 г).

Silikoni was a Finnish radio program in the 80’s that broadcasted computer files as audio (which sounds something like this). It was aired on Thursdays at 18.30. Some people liked to transfer the audio to the computer and make the program run, while others just liked the sounds.

I once had a letter from a 70 year old lady who wrote she did not understand anything of computing but she liked to listen to how different makes of computers buzzed in their personal (!) ways.

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Awaawaa (2010) by Andrew Rosinski for Mostra Collettiva Estiva at bubblebyte.org.

See it in fullscreen++

Monolyth is a social network that only accept messages with precisely 140 000 characters. If less, the message is invisible. If more, the message starts to decay. Supposedly.

A video of a TRS80 performing audiovisual synthesis some 30 years ago. It’s hard to tell due to the delightfully modern compression, but it seems to be mostly textmode.

Skype art by Raquel Meyers, made with Skype Emoticon Art Drawing Tool