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PETSCII-version of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures cover art. Made by @vectorpoem in his own program EDSCII, which supports ASCII, ANSI, PETSCII, ATASCII and more.

The 1800s Jacquard looms and its punched cards. Images from around the interwebz.

Monodraw – an ASCII-editor for the Mac under development. It’s presented primarily as a way to model ideas and structures, rather than making art.

Monodraw allows you to easily create text-based art – like diagrams, layouts, flow charts and visually represent algorithms, data structures, binary formats and more. 

sourceh/t: prostheticknowledge. (and yes, technically it’s Unicode and not ASCII)

“Your moving message here”

Mastervideo MCT 3201 video titler aka character generator. source

Videonics Video Titlemaker 2000.

Hypnotic demonstration video from 1992

VTG-01 – a low-budget kit to overlay text on video. Just plug in an IBM keyboard and you were good to go in 1999.

Made by David L. Jones.

Telecartes – phone cards for Minitel.

via Minitel Research Lab

Elektronika MK-85 and its character set. It was the first Soviet calculator with BASIC, and almost an exact copy of the Casio FX-700P.

Eye by cmang. Made in DurDraw, his own Unix/Linux/OSX-software for ANSI/ASCII animations.

The Galaksija computer and the graphics part of its character set. Designed by Voja Antonic in Yugoslavia, 1983. Screenshots from games and an adaptation of the classic Dancing Demon animation.

Also check µGalaksija, a single-chip remake of the Galaksija.