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Prestel, cover from 1982

Atari’s Compugraph (1976) – an ASCII photo booth. You have your picture taken and get a dot matrix print out (11×14 inches) after 90 seconds. A more recent approach to textmode photography is the Descriptive Camera, in case you missed it.

corrinne:

Polish poster for Stage Fright (1950) by Marek Freudenreich

Prestel / Viewdata (1979)

I.C.S (Sep, 1944)

prostheticknowledge:

2ch Kaomoji Pop-Up Toaster 

Japanese ASCII emoticon toaster, from J-List

Available in blue and pink

TV ads for the Viewtron videotex service by Knight-Ridder and AT&T, 1983-1986.

More Viewtron posts

From Playboy, October 1967.

2024-update: not sure if we got this from here, but this exact page was featured in a custom-made Playboy issue for Forrest Gump in 1994. It was dated to July 1966.

Ad for Datavision, the Swedish videotex service. From the magazine VIC rapport, issue 3, 1984.