‘Secretary. Part 1’ by  Raquel Meyers
A typewriter live performance  at TYPE IN workshop & exhibition (LOVELACE – POETICAL SCIENCE + C4 projects, Copenhagen 2014)

Videotex article in the swedish magazine ‘Mikrodatorn’ nº5 (1983)

Dead computer, burning flame. By Lawrence Wells 2015.

Harley 1861, f. 307 Carmina figurata from the British Library.

Ad for the Scanset XL terminal in BYTE Magazine, 1983. h/t: Tim Koch

Album cover for Cryptochrome by Poke-1,170. It’s MSX IDM.

DotEater, Virus/Trojan (1998)

Glyphdrawing, a new online textmode editor that supports ttf-font import and independent font size and cell size. Made by grmmxi (images from his Instagram) and Ian Tuomi.

Examples from Homeless by Hiro Protagonist, 2004.

Facebook text art by mammifero. More here.

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The ASCII competition at the demoscene event Evoke, 2009. Music by Goto-Ötzi, king of Yetis.

Disk directory of the C64 demo Tiki Pahu! by Mermaid of Genesis Project, 2013

Preview of a game by Cactusquid.

Black Maiden logo by Avenger & Mr Wong, 2000.

Emo & Tick by Rita Sá. Animation series mostly from 2010-2011 but also 2021-2022.

(post updated in 2024)

Heikki’s Garden of Flowers is a wonderful collection of “pre-ASCII art / pictorial typography / text art”. It was made by Heikki Lotvonen, who’s been collecting these for many years, and also does his own graphics and tools that have been here before.

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New York Public Library is experimenting with PETSCII to generate covers for books that don’t have one. Each letter in the title of the book is replaced by a corresponding PETSCII-character in one of its two character sets. So A become ▲ and F becomes  and so on.

More here.

a cosmos by thomas a. clark

by lukejuntunen