Texttop (2024-update: now called Browsh) converts your computer screen into text (coloured block characters) and sends it to you, while you’re on a crappy internet connection somewhere else. Finally you can stream Gangnam Style in the forest! By Thomas Buckley-Houston. h/t: r r mutt
Teletext offline reader, a brand new tool to browse teletext on Commodore 64. Very inconvenient = very good.
Viznut’s image-to-text conversion, using unscii-8 with 256 colours. Unscii is a set of Unicode-compatible fonts based on fonts from 80′s platforms and games. Download here.
Line-drawings (a) converted by two ASCII-converters (b,c), by a new deep learning technique (d) and by “artist” (e). You can try the deep ASCII converter on the web and read the recently published article here. Or at Motherboard.
The Bad Apple video running in teletext on the BBC Micro computer (which has a teletext graphics mode). Made by Bitshifters. Read more here.
“You didn’t know that Compuserve sold posters of ASCII Art in 1981 but now you do.” / Jason Scott
