Slogans of the Free Speech Movement in IBMs punchcards, 1964 (University of California)

“Strike”

“I am a student at the University of California. Please do not fold, spindle or mutilate me.”

Via

Firehouse by Shadow Demon/ACiD. Is this the summer house of North Eastern Underground Alliance?

Typewritten poems by Travis Wyche, 2004-2011.

How about that tan? Videotext from the German TV channel RTL.

PETSCII Nagel [2013] by Leichtfuß

Museum of Teletext Art, on Finnish YLE teletext 2014. More info.

By CTRL+C & CTRL+V (2006)

lordnkon:

Hellbeard said I’m currently in a flow… My girl and me are binge watching fringe and I’m painting #ascii. We couldn’t travel around this time but anyway… these holidays are #awesome ! #Amiga #asciiart a day keeps doctor away! #Buddhist #temple as a part of the new big thing coming soon :-) // #textmode #ansi #tibetian

Bubble wrap paintings by Bradley Hart. Thanks to Jacob Sikker Remin for the tip.

A woodblock print of Pratisara Dharani from the 700s. It’s a buddhist talisman written in Sanskrit and it was found in modern day China. Carrying printed texts like this was believed to be beneficial for the person in life or afterlife.

Source: Jahyun Kim (2020) Korean Single-Sheet Buddhist Woodblock Illustrated Prints Produced for Protection and Worship

By CTRL+C & CTRL+V (2010)

Structure-based ASCII Art ( Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang and Tien-Tsin Wong). ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2010 issue), Vol. 29, No. 4, July 2010, pp. 52:1-52:9.

Braille typesetter, photographed by T Dog, 2009.

Made by the Kuba people of Zaire. via

By CTRL+C & CTRL+V (2008)

Manuel Vio’s first attempt at PETSCII, using @nurpax‘s new Petmate editor. via @manuelvio 

Geki-Oko-PunPunMaru

Blocky, geometrical, textmodey, op artey designs by Verner Panton.