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2012-08-26

1980s, Typography.

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“This work consists of Phillips’s own translation of the Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Each of the 34 Cantos is accompanied by an introductory image and then three illustrations opposite the text of the poem.” —— [rest here]

Tom Phillips, Canto XXXIII: [no title] from “Dante’s Inferno”, 1983

Intaglio print, screenprint and lithograph on paper

2012-08-21

1980s, 1985, advertising, teletext, usa, videotex.

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Teletext roundup ● Modcomp Profile ● US Videotext Scene

Could’ve been a demo party, but it’s the North American Videotex, 1985.

2012-08-20

1980s, text mode.

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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.

Via

2012-08-14

1980s, antiope, magazine, minitel, videotex.

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The first issue of Minitel Magazine (January/February 1984), via.

2012-08-07

1980s, 1983, c64, game, petscii, usa, χχχ.

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Stroker by Bob Carr, 1983. A C64 wanking game in PETSCII. Carr is one of the earliest PETSCII-artists, since he used the PET in the 1970’s.

(via @despens)

2012-08-01

1980s, animation, text mode, TRS-80.

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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.

2012-07-31

1980s, datavision, print, sweden, videotex.

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