Typewritten American flag by Menno Fast, 1948.
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George Washington typewriter portrait by Rosaire J. Belanger, 1939.
These proto-emoticons were published in the satirical magazine Puck on 30 March, 1881. Although often described as the first emoticons, they seem to be a rip-off of a Polish magazine from just a few weeks earlier.
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Post updated in 2024.
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 it was exhibited at one of the earliest computer art exhibitions, The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, 1968.
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From the book Kykafrikaans by Willem Boshoff, 1980.
By David Daniels. Taken from his book The Gates of Paradise (2000) that contains works made since 1984. Available at UbuWeb.
From the book Typerformance: Analogies, Drawings & Patterns With Letterforms From a Collection of Student Work, edited by Roger Ferriter 1983. Copied from Alex Tyson’s Tumblr.
By Marge Roemer in the 1950s. She published her book Fun With Your Typewriter in 1956, and it was reviewed by a magazine called Woman’s Day. It has a conservative house-wife/secretary kind of vibe to it.
“Now that fall is upon us, you may find this typewriter cartooning useful in turning out entertaining programs, posters and place cards, appropriately illustrated, for school or club affairs.”
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