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1990s, DOS, virus.

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Little Green Caterpillar virus

2010s, 2014, japan, shiftjis.

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source

1930s, 1934, cross-stitch, embroidery, france, print, textile.

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Dillmont, Th. de, ed.
D.M.C. Point de Marque [4] IVme Série. Mulhouse, Dollfus-Mieg & Cie., [first pub c. 1900, this printing c.1934, 20 pgs.] Via.

2010s, 2014, advertising, calligram, code, usa.

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The source code for the Braintree Payments website in 2014/2015 contained URLs in the shape of ASCII art. The URLs led to ASCII-inspired games, made by Unit9. Video.

More Braintree ASCII-stuff here and here and here.

1980s, 1989, game, japan, MZ-700, SharpSCII.

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EUGEA, a game by Kazuhiro Furuhata for MZ-700, 1989/2003. Image from the online MZ-700 emulator MZ MEMORIES by Takeshi Maruyama, made in Java, Actionscript and Flash, made around 2003, it seems.

Post updated in 2024.

1990s, amiga, bbs, figlet, scene, switzerland.

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Ad for Cheese Line, a Swiss Amiga BBS. Sort of looks like a Figlet font.

ascii, χχχ.

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χχχ ASCII by Krogg (aka Krogg Zothommog).

1990s, ansi, bbs.

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By George Ramos (1992), via.

2010s, 2018, clothes, code, textile, usa.

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Perl Quine Scarf by @knityak, available here. A quine is a program that copies its own source code as output.

2000s, c64, petscii.

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Djurens rymd [2005] by Dino

140art, 2014, brazil, Twitter.

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Tweets by Margar!dA, 2014.

1960s, 1970s, design, netherlands, Typography.

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Various works by Dutch typographer Jurriaan Schrofer, mostly from 1960s and 1970s.

2000s, textile, weaving.

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The Minnesota Weaver and Drafts and Designs (2006).

2010, 2010s, grid, mosaic, usa.

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Phil Crosshatch by Chuck Close, 2010. Engraving with embossment on Twinrocker handmade paper.

2010s, book, poetry, print, typewriter.

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A Poem to Philip Glass by Barrie Tullett (2011).
The book is a typographic response to the music of Philip Glass.

ansi, ascii.

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Screenshots from yourworldoftext.com, a site by Andrew Badr to make infinite collaborative ANSI-works using the Courier font. Each page is open for anyone to edit (without login), unless the author has protected (parts of) it. To start a new page, just type the URL you want and type away into space!

It’s possible to link to other coordinates of the page, or external sites. There is a list of some of the pages here. Read more here.

1970, 1970s, switzerland, Typography.

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Typographische Monatsblätter nr 11, by Wolfgang Weingart 1970.

More at design-is-fine.

1980s, 1989, animation, teletext, uk.

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Bill Geers teletext animations from 1989, straight outta the bible. Full playlist here. Made on the BBC Micro, which had a built-in teletext graphics mode.

More teletext animations.

2000s, 2009, canada, weaving.

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