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