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Tag Archives: usa

2018-03-27

1990s, 1996, advertising, animation, ansi, DOS, games, usa.

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Alive Software’s very pretty Summer 1996 catalog. From ALIVECAT.exe

2018-03-06

2010s, 2018, ascii, conversion, DOS, Glitchaus, knitting, usa.

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Knitted ASCII-scarf from Glitchaus, available here. It’s an Atari ST image file read as a text, displayed with the MS DOS font (code page 437), then knitted.

2018-03-03

1870s, advertising, ascii, poetry, print, usa.

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Ads in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1873-1874 found by Paul Soulellis. ASCII advertising was quite popular at the time, and these are almost like concrete poetry advertising?

2018-02-25

1800s, 1880s, 1888, print, typewriter, typewriter art, usa.

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yesterdaysprint:

The Osage City Free Press, Kansas, April 26, 1888

Yet another type dude.

2018-02-24

1900s, 1904, flora stacey, typewriter, typewriter art, usa.

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yesterdaysprint:

The Winfield Daily Free Press, Kansas, April 18, 1904

2018-02-14

1960s, 1969, ascii art, ebcdic, frederick hammerley, usa.

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

2018-02-13

1960s, 1969, ascii art, ebcdic, frederick hammerley, print, usa.

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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

2018-02-04

2010s, 2018, animation, ascii, game, usa.

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Improved wand effects in Stone Story RPG by Martian Rex.

2018-02-01

2000s, 2001, grid, usa.

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Crop circles in Kansas, 2001. See hi-res image at NASA’s site.

2018-01-16

2010s, 2012, animation, barcode, conversion, flipbook, usa.

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Marilyn Monroe flip book made with barcodes from DVDs of her movies, by Scott Blake 2012. Video here, GIF here.