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2014-05-20

1970, 1970s, book, poetry, typewriter, uk.

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Beethoven Today by Bob Cobbing, 1970. From the book Typewriter Art, edited by Alan Riddell 1975.

2014-04-30

1930s, 1935, textile, uk.

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Textile design by T Bradley, 1935.

2014-04-19

1600s, 1648, emoticons, england, poetry, uk.

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What seems to be a smiley from 1648 (top image), written by the poet Robert Herrick, is most likely not. The same book contained more smilies (bottom image) that indicate that it’s not supposed to be read as an emoticon. See Slate’s article for more examples and information.

2014-04-14

2000s, 2009, ascii, england, uk.

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

2014-03-30

2010s, 2014, display, uk.

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Paddington Station in London delivers an ASCII horse! They made a christmas graphics last year.

2014-03-30

2010s, 2014, conversion, font, petscii, uk.

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An experiment showing Helvetica rendered in PETSCII characters. Moving the base image reveals clearer ways of rendering each glyph.

2014-03-23

2010s, conversion, england, petscii, uk.

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By Richard Winters (Pixel8or). Beatles, the Sound of Music and David Bowie as PETSCIIoid interpretations.

2014-03-18

1980s, 1981, character set, font, tools, uk, ZX81.

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Sinclair ZX81 character set and font, via.

2014-03-15

1980, 1980s, character set, tools, uk.

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Sinclair ZX80 character set, including nonprintable characters (shown as questionmarks) and BASIC keywords.

2014-03-14

2010s, 2014, england, uk.

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World map in tangram by Michael Tompsett, available as print here. via