Tag Archives: 2000s

Hermannn2 by Immanuel Hermann, 2001. Source code for converting text into ASCII stereograms. The source code itself is a stereogram (cross your eyes to get a 3D-effect).

From Delaware’s Autumn/Winter collection, 2004.

Character encoding on the www. Unicode became the most popular standard in 2008 and four years later 60% of all web pages indexed by Google used Unicode. Also interesting to note that Chinese encoding has been doing a sine wave since 2007.

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London Midland public transport ASCII art. Photo by Frankie Roberto, 2009.

The oldest torrent alive is an ASCII-conversion of the Matrix from 10 years ago. More

(via nerdcore)

 

Beck – Black Tambourine. ASCII-video by Adam Levite, 2004.

ASCII animals by Sebastian Stöcker (SSt), 2000-2005. His website was updated at least until 2022.

TempleOS, a Christian operating system by Terry A. Davis, 2015. It was meant to be the third temple in the Bible. It was mainly a text-mode application, somewhere inbetween DOS and C64, as per instructions from God. Davis suffered from schizophrenia. More @ Wikipedia.

Not sure, but I think the text is in PETSCII?

Dwarf Fortress by Zach and Tarn Adams of Bay 12 games, 2006. Part roguelike, part city-building freeware game presented code page 437 ANSI. Also see Wikipedia.

As of 2024, the game is still being updated.