My grandpa worked for IBM in the ’60s. This was printed from the company’s mainframe computer after JFK was assassinated.
source. h/t: Erkan Spitten
Ancient patterns, mostly from Peru. via
The 34th Cleveland International Film Festival Campaign poster by Twist Creative (2010).
His nimble fingers are the keybars of his typewriter. :-)
(via Modern Mechanix)
Typewriter gloves, 1935.
From ASCII-demo by Paranoids. MS-demo, 1995.
By CTRL+C & CTRL+V (2006)
Leetspeak and possible emoticons from 1890. Found by Koichi Yasuoka, who writes:
The article shown right is from The Typewriter World (Chicago), Vol.I, No.2 (October 1897), p.46, which I found in The New York Public Library. You see the sentense “he Said it would Be a thxng of beavty & jOy FORever” is followed by a combination of punctuation marks, a semicolon and a right parenthesis, which is one of the so-called emoticons nowadays. I cannot make sure that it was really intended to represent a winking smile, but I need to check Berkshire News (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) of February 6, 1890. How do you think about this?
Eduard Ovčáček
Julio Le Parc, acrylic on canvas, 1959. via
C64 PETSCII by Electric, b, Electric, Exotic Men, and Dr TerrorZ. From the competitions at the Zoo demoparty in Finland.
Here’s a few font experiments, more or less sensible, that you should be aware of:
- Heikki Lotvonen’s text highlighting that is built into the font itself. Does not use HTML, CSS or Javascript.
- llama.ttf that has an “AI” (LLM) built into the font itself, so when you write !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, every ! is replaced with a word. (check out the links at the bottom of that page too)
- Fontemon – world’s first videogame in a font.
“Keyboard graphics” by Quicksilver (Bryce L Tomlinson), 1987. Examples that came with his PETSCII-editor Kaleidoscope 2.0.
Scott E Fahlman suggests a use of :) and :( in September, 1982. This happened on a bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. It caught on pretty fast, and in November there were already several variations.
There are many older examples of emoticons, but this is likely what popularized emoticons as we know them today.
I Will Glam : The first TELETEXT videoclip in history?
The video clip took off on national spanish TV (Cuatro Teletexto) in 2009. More info here
(Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Youkan‘s printed cards with the graphics from the Hanafuda-game from 1983.
Feelgood and Morph. C64 disk directory art by jab, who used to make ANSI-graphics.
punchcard greetings, via