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2010s, japan, shiftjis.

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Kumamon (Yuru-chara)

2010s, teletext.

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Corrupted Slovenian teletext, 2010.

1950s, julius nelson, keyboard art, print, typewriter.

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Typewriter Mystery Games by Julius Nelson (1951).
Thanks to Andrew Belsey for the tip.

1970s, baudot, radioteletype, RTTY.

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Hot setup for radio text art! This is Isao Yamaguchi and his radio machinery to send text messages around the world. RTTY art was around even before ASCII was born. It used something called Baudot instead. More here.
Pic: JA1DI – Isao Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan (1975).

1400s, ancient, kufic, square kufic.

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Square kufic, meaning:

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

الْحَمْدُ للّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيمِ

مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

إِيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ و إِيَّاكَ نَسْتَعِينُ

اهدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ المُستَقِيمَ

صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنعَمتَ عَلَيهِمْ غَيرِ المَغضُوبِ عَلَيهِمْ وَ لاَ الضَّالِّينَ

It’s the complete Surah 1, al-Fatihah; in the shape of Allah. From the Mir Chaqmaq Mosque in Iran, built in the 1400s.

1990s, ansi, DOS, virus.

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The Rescue virus (1997), which shows a screen full of nonsense messages.

Rescue 911 Computer Virus ——————————————
Dear user„ Your system is executing an illegal instruction at address 5E10:2D8F. However, this might cause you lots of problems later on. The system has got stuck , so please reboot your machine and make sure that all your programs are clean. This error message is being broadcasted by the 911 computer VIRUS !! Have a nice day ..

1990s, animation, teletext.

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ITV Nightscreen, 1998.

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

2010s, aa, ascii, shiftjis.

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MagicTape Car by asciiart (2012).

2010s, 2015, animation, conversion, daniel rozin, gallery, grid, interactive, new york.

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PomPom mirror by Daniel Rozin, 2015.

2000s, 4-ch, aa, ascii, ctrl+c&ctrl+v, shiftjis.

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囲炉裏 – Irori by CTRL+C & CTRL+V (2007).
Giko and Shiee are frying and eating mochi (rice cake) and boiling something in a pan.

2010s, 2016, colours, conversion, finland, font, resolution, unscii, viznut.

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Viznut’s image-to-text conversion, using unscii-8 with 256 colours. Unscii is a set of Unicode-compatible fonts based on fonts from 80′s platforms and games. Download here.

2010s, 2014, basque country, EITB, euskera, teletext, teletexto.

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‪#‎teletexto‬ en euskera / basque ‪#‎teletext‬ (EITB TV channel)

1970s, tools.

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Agnes Denes – Dialectic Triangulation: A Visual Philosophy. Here she is posing together with The R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S, who programmed her work. They say:

We were also supposed to progam another project for another artist, Agnes Denes, but she didn’t understand how computers worked and designed what was basically just an animated movie, with little interaction, and too complex for us to program.