By PunksDistorted. Looks like PETSCII, ATASCII, SharpSCII and MS DOS fonts.
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Splendid by Larry Coryell & Philip Catherine, 1978. h/t Takashi Kawano
ASCII-portraits of Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson made with a UNIVAC in 1957. via (Technically not ASCII since it didn’t exist, but perhaps EBCDIC) h/t: Marcin Wichary
The first close-up photos of Mars were taken with an analogue TV-camera and sent to earth as a grid of numbers. Each number represented a colour so scientists painted by numbers to colourize Mars in 1965. h/t @mwichary
By ufovideo352.
Typewriter map of Africa by the cartographer Daniel Huffman. It was done by resizing a map of Africa into 75×60 pixels, add a shaded relief, categorize each pixel according to intensity, convert it to ASCII, add details in Illustrator, and then type it on a typewriter.
More info and images here.
Heikki Lotvonen‘s reproduction of an 1860’s typographic ornamentation using his own Glyph Drawing software that you can try out here.