Tag Archives: ascii

2013-10-15
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The Brain virus is considered the first PC virus. Created by Basit Farooq Alvi in 1986.

2013-10-14
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The Ping-Pong virus (also called Boot, Bouncing Ball, Bouncing Dot, Italian, Italian-A or VeraCruz) is a boot sector virus discovered on March 1, 1988 at the University of Turin in Italy. The virus would become active if a disk access is made exactly on the half hour and start to show a small “ball” bouncing around the screen in both text mode (the ASCII bullet character “•”) and graphical mode.

2013-10-14
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Lamer Exterminator (1989) virus for Commodore Amiga.

2013-10-14
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“I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!” Creeper was possibly the very first computer virus, although this is contested. It was invented back in 1971 by Bob Thomas, using the Tenex operating system, and used the precursor of the internet, ARPANET, to spread between DEC PDP 10 systems.

2013-10-07
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ASCII cage by derpixelhase. Looks good especially from a distance.

2013-10-02
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2600 is a classic hacker magazine, started in 1984. Back in the days, if you whistled the tone 2600 hz into the phone, you could make free phone calls. That’s where they got their name from.

Today we have 2600 followers, so let’s celebr8 with this ASCII-logo made by cmang.

2013-09-19
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Kenneth Taylor’s keyboard art portraits from the 1920s. Featuring Dorothy Gish, William S. Hart and Charlie Chaplin from Motion Picture Magazine.

2013-09-15
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ASCII Cowboy by wakashimazout 2007, via

2013-09-12
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Titas’ ASCII torso, used on the cover of a dissertation on transhumanism & gender. via

2013-09-05
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Self portrait by 389helix.

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