Tag Archives: ascii

2023-05-02
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Timm Ulrichs, in «edition et» no. 3, Edited by Bernhard Höke, Verlag Christian Grützmacher, Berlin, 1967. Via garadinervi.

2020-07-07
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Military ASCII art from 1967 using a custom system that combined US ASCII and vector graphics, fit for 2400 baud distribution. More info also here.

2018-02-14
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garadinervi:

Frederick Hammersley, A Good Line is Hard to Beat, 1969, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA / Frederick Hammersley Foundation

2018-02-13
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ASCII art by Frederick Hammersley, 1969. Made on an IBM-computer (which used EBCDIC and not ASCII encoding), and:

The alphanumeric characters we could ‘draw’ with were: the alphabet, ten numerals and eleven symbols, such as periods, dashes, slashes, etc….

h/t: Robert Doerfler

2016-09-26
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Computer printed ASCII-portraits by Jaume Estapa, 1968-69. Some of the earliest examples of this, after Mona Lisa (1964). More info here, more 1960’s ASCII here or here.

2015-01-08
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Two museums in Seattle link up two Teletype 37s (1969) for four hours so people could chat and, you know, send ASCII Homers.

Full video + More teletype art.

2014-02-27
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prostheticknowledge:

Mona By The Numbers

Probably the earliest example of computer-generated text art, put together in 1964 by H. Philip Peterson:
In 1964, H. Philip Peterson of Control Data Corporation (CDC) used a CDC 3200 computer and a “flying-spot” scanner to create a digital representation of the Mona Lisa. The image contained 100,000 pixels that were plotted using numerals, sometimes overprinted, to approximate the required density and took 14 hours to complete.

Similar digital images of popular art, cartoon characters, and even nudes adorned the walls of corporate offices, labs, and computer centers throughout the 1960s.

You can find out more about the ‘Digital Mona Lisa’ here, and there is an online viewer for closer inspection here

2012-10-02
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The earliest known ASCII art so far? That wasn’t pr0n? Unknown author. From compart:

Done on Carnegie-Mellon University’s Bendix G-21 computer with a standard uppercase character set. Programs written in ALGOL.

Created mid 1960s

Artwork Type: print

Material: 

print, b/w, computer-generated

More 1960s ASCII art

2012-02-27
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Kitty by N Konstantinov and others, 1968.

A group of russian physicists and mathematicians with N.Konstantinov in the head of it created mathematic model of the cat and its moving and realized this model in the program for the computer “BESM-4”. Computer printed hundreds of frames on the paper using alphabet symbols and then they were converted to the cinefilm.

Source

Post updated in 2024.