Tag Archives: ascii

“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.

ASCII cage by derpixelhase. Looks good especially from a distance.

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.

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

ASCII Cowboy by wakashimazout 2007, via

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

Self portrait by 389helix.

Works by Trivial for the Amiga ASCII Art Exhibition in Cologne 2013. The first two ones made together with Mortimer Twang and the last one together with dMG.

More here.

Works by Dipswitch, aBHO and Sk!n for the Amiga ASCII Art Exhibition in Cologne, 2013. source

Works by dMG and Zaner for the Amiga ASCII Art Exhibition in Cologne, 2013. source