Typewriter works by Jürgen O. Olbrich shown now at Dokumenta in Kassel. Photos by Jacob Remin.
Emoticons from 1893, published in the German Kreisblatt für den Kreis Malmedy. h/t Gleb Albert.
An obscure little program in German to convert images into text, using the words of your choice. It seems to be called RUTVIEW and you can download it here.
By a:f (Andreas Freise), probably in the 1990s.